Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bacchanale, John Holden (the one male in the cast) fared better than he had previously. In Three Studies in Lostness, Holden seemed more sure of himself, although his performance could not compare with that of Ruth Emerson, who also choreographed the studies. Miss Emerson is, at least, a very striking dancer...
...Since Mozart." In Forbidden Childhood (written with New York World-Telegram and Sun Music Critic Louis Biancolli), Ruth Slenczynska recalls how her father cursed her, kept her hungry and beat her into being a genius. Nine hours a day, seven days a week, she sat practicing in her slip at the keyboard, never wearing a dress because the sweat would have ruined it. Her mother's protests were useless. In all things the terrified child obeyed the man who, after saving her from drowning, told her: "I just saved your life. Your life belongs to me and me alone...
...first concert. While rehearsing for it, she asked her father what would happen if she made a mistake. He told her that people would be there ready to let fly with rotten eggs and vegetables, demonstrated when she missed a note by throwing a ripe tomato at her. Ruth played brilliantly, had critics raving. "Not since Mozart . ." one began...
...child had been making more than $75,000 a year for three years when she heard her father say in an unguarded moment; "There is only one thing in this world that counts and that is money, and I teach Ruth to play Beethoven because it brings in the dollars." She was old enough to know that he was not the musician he claimed to be. When her father took over her training completely, she started to play music she did not understand with false phrasing, exaggerated rhythms, distorted emotions. A Town Hall concert climaxed the tension between father...
...divorced (because her husband, like her father before him, began directing her musical career), Ruth Slenczynska is in the midst of a powerful comeback. After one false start, she returned to concertizing six years ago, has since played more than 600 concerts in Europe and the U.S., recently recorded three LPs for Decca. With a measure of success she has risen to a measure of compassion, and though in Forbidden Childhood she condemns her father (he died six years ago) for what he was, she forgives him for what he did. Perhaps through his own fault, her father...