Word: self-taught
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...Prokofiev and premiered the composer's Sixth, Seventh and Ninth piano sonatas. Unlike most of the fire- breathing Soviet wunderkinder, though, Richter came to the piano late, originally planning a career as a conductor; until he went to study with Neuhaus at age 21, he was largely self-taught...
...after a 35-year career, the self-taught musician looks back on the fruits of this initial inspiration including scores for the well-known Japanese movies "Ran," "Kwaiden" and Hiri Kire," among many others. One of these, "Dodes kaden," was shown at the Carpenter Center on Tuesday...
...outline of his life seems a fable of what emigration could inspire. The young artist -- Cole was the son of a small trader from Lancashire -- arrives in the aesthetically uncharted wilderness, where, self-taught, by dint of "natural vision," he begins to create a new, true and specifically American picturesqueness out of rocks, gorges, sunsets, trees and distant Indians. He is taken up by the plutocrats of his day, some with long patrician roots, like Stephen van Rensselaer III, America's biggest landlord, and others more recently arrived, like the grocery millionaire Luman Reed. Old money wanted to show that...
...Berlin, but his parents brought him to London in 1939, barely in front of the rising wave of Nazi persecution. In England his schooling was irregular and "progressive" -- even today his handwriting is that of a 10-year-old -- and although he had some art training, he was basically self-taught. Freud's German origins have suggested to some critics that early works like Girl with Roses, 1947-48, a portrait of his first wife, Kitty Garman, daughter of the sculptor Jacob Epstein, were done under the spell of the German Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) portraiture of the 1920s -- painters...
...addition to his 12 albums with the Mothers and his numerous other rock recordings, Zappa collaborated with the likes of composer Pierre Boulez and conductor Zubin Mehta on such pieces as The Perfect Stranger, a collection of chamber music, and 200 Motels, an "opera for television." The self-taught Zappa was as prickly and puckish about his "serious" music as he was about rock. "I write," he declared, "because I am personally amused by what I do, and if other people are amused by it, then it's fine. If they're not, then that's also fine...