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...pianist. He succeeded as well as he could. He was not as cosmopolitan as his great rival Arthur Rubinstein, nor would he ever fool anybody into thinking he was Artur Schnabel, the apostle of German-style ''depth.'' The Columbia disks, all solo, are rife with puckish renditions of Scarlatti sonatas and Schubert impromptus that sometimes verge on eccentricity, and of Beethoven sonatas and Schumann fantasies that often threaten to collapse beneath their own structural weight. The highlight of the set is his 1965 Carnegie Hall concert, with a nervous Horowitz skirting disaster in the opening Bach-Busoni Toccata, Adagio...
...than 50 years to hear Horowitz," said Nadia Tsiganova, who had stayed in line all night to get her ticket. "He is magnificent." Yuri, a young soldier on his way to Afghanistan, exclaimed reverently, "I will carry the memory of this afternoon with me always." Reviewing the program of Scarlatti, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Schubert, Liszt and Chopin, Critic Dmitri Bashkirov wrote in Sovietskaya Rossiya, "He indisputably remained the brightest bearer of the Russian performing tradition. I think there was not one person in the hall who didn't leave the concert in a happy, elevated mood." After watching...
...also contain a scholarly aspect. She has made concerted efforts during her career to champion marginalized composers and underrated works that are rarely performed for the public. Her impressive commitment to the popularization of early music is evident in her work to bring the compositions of figures such as Scarlatti, Paisiello, Caldara, Caccini, Vivaldi, Gluck, and Salieri to the attentions of contemporary concert-goers and music-lovers...
...sold more than 290 million copies worldwide and whose preposterous yet compelling plots helped define the genre of airport fiction; in Naples, Florida. After working as an actor and theater producer for 20 years, Ludlum turned his hand to writing at the age of 40. His first novel, The Scarlatti Inheritance, published in 1971, was an instant hit; his subsequent 21 books all topped the best-seller lists...
DIED. ROBERT LUDLUM, 73, master of plot twists and international intrigue whose 21 novels, including The Bourne Identity and The Matarese Circle, sold more than 290 million copies; of a heart attack; in Naples, Fla. Ludlum's first novel, The Scarlatti Inheritance, written at 42, became an immediate best seller. He gave up his day job as a theater producer but continued to do the occasional TV commercial voice-over. His novel The Sigma Protocol, completed before his death, is due in bookstores this October...