Word: schnabel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...creation of Citicorp Center might have been scripted by Ross Macdonald in collaboration with Pirandello (Six Characters in Search of an Author). It all began one Saturday afternoon in September 1968. Two ambitious real estate brokers, Donald Schnabel, then 36, and Charles McArthur, then 45, had heard that Saint Peter's might be for sale. As Schnabel and McArthur cased the other buildings in the block, they became possessed of what is almost an impossible dream in modern Manhattan: "assembling" all the parcels so that one mighty building could rise on the site...
...took the real estate team five months to meet the right man at the bank. He was Henry Muller, vice president in charge of real estate, who was keenly aware that the rapidly expanding bank had to rent office space all over town. Even so, when Schnabel and McArthur got to see him, Muller threw them out. Said he: "I thought these two bandits were out to screw...
...Muller had second thoughts, and so did the bank. There then ensued a cloak-and-dagger operation. If any property owners on the block had known the identity of the buyer, their asking prices would have skyrocketed and, as Schnabel recalls, "the whole deal would have died. It took guts for the bank to say, 'We're going to do this.' It was risky as hell...
...perhaps the incalculable enrichment of America by those refugees?by Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann, Artur Schnabel and Paul Tillich?that started the process of change. By special legislation in 1948, the U.S. began admitting more than 400,000 "displaced persons." Then came 32,000 refugees from the Hungarian revolt of 1956 and some 650,000 from Fidel Castro's seizure of Cuba in 1959. But only under President John F. Kennedy, great-grandson of an immigrant farmer from Ireland's County Wexford, did overall reform begin. According to the Immigration Act of 1965, which finally took effect...
...compressing much into little. They could almost be called transistorized sonatas. Op. 126 especially finds the composer speaking with harrowing intensity and sharp intent. Gould, technically brilliant as ever, not only gets the point but conveys the intensity. The most eloquent disc performances of these works since Artur Schnabel set the standard in the 1930s...