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...born in Paris just a block away from Alkan's home), he appeared as a bit actor in several Jackie Cooper films, attended a professional school "for spoiled movie brats." At 20, with prize money he won in piano competitions, he went to Manhattan to study with Olga Samaroff Stokowski, Leopold's first wife and a former pupil of Elie's, the fellow with the apes and the cockatoos. After his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1946, Lewenthal toured the U.S. for three years. While he was walking through Central Park one summer evening...
...many of the questions that nag their conversation (But how good was Busoni?), for the sweep of genius from those halcyon days is very nearly complete. The old pianists seem far more individual and whimsical than today's players. Saint-Saens had a touch like Sonny Liston; Olga Samaroff, born Lucie Hicken-looper in Texas and once married to Stokowski, had all the percussive power of a butterfly...
...Bernstein put such distinguished nonprofessionals on his program? "Christmas family spirit," said Lenny. Each man had the background to make the party a serious success. Manager Moseley studied piano under famed Teacher Olga Samaroff, was a fellow student of Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood in 1941. Later, Moseley spent five years (1950-55) as director of the School of Music at the University of Oklahoma. Sugar Baron Keiser, Harvard '27, won a Juilliard scholarship after graduation, studied piano under Ernest Hutcheson before he took over the family business (Cuban-American Sugar Co.). Keiser still gives concerts near his home...
...mother thought he should be exposed to other teachers, but Van stubbornly refused. When he was 14, Mrs. Cliburn was taking master's classes at Juilliard, and Olga Samaroff,* a famed teacher at the school, offered Van a scholarship. But Pianist Samaroff died before he could start, and he refused to study with anybody else. In one volcanic scene with his mother, he threatened to give up the piano entirely if he was forced to go through with the Juilliard plans ("I always threatened her with that whenever she tried to give me away to another teacher"). They moved...
Died. Olga Samaroff Stokowski, 65, plump, hearty, onetime concert pianist, and Texas-born first wife of Conductor Leopold Stokowski; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Christened Lucy Hickenlooper,* she adopted the Russian name as more appropriate to an artistic career, for 50-odd years taught bankers and clubwomen how to listen to music, and budding pianists how to play...