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...Perahia laid aside his baton for a Steinway. He was 25, short on experience, and well aware that he needed a competition success to make a name for himself. Fighting nausea all the way, he won England's important Leeds International Pianoforte Competition. That brought him 50 performing dates and a contract with Columbia Records, which had not signed a new pianist since Andre Watts in the mid-1960s. His concert fees started to rise. (He now makes $5,000 per engagement...
...World reached 93%-and the superamusement center was so jam-packed it had to close its gates to visitors. In California, Disneyland was also doing record business. As of this week Broadway theater ticket sales are running $6 million ahead of last year's level. Sales of costly Steinway pianos have hit a historic high C. At Stanley Korshak Inc., one of Chicago's most expensive dress shops, Vice President Stanley Korshak Jr. reports that business has been running 20% ahead of last year. "We're spending it while we have it," he says, adding: "When faced...
...need it; I am vivacious all the time"). He and his wife Wanda, the youngest child of the late Arturo Toscanini, much prefer a game of canasta with other couples, listening to records (Horowitz likes Wagner), or an occasional trip to the movies. The sound of Horowitz's Steinway is never heard at night. He practices ("I prefer to call it rehearsing") regularly every afternoon for an hour and a half, often with the Horowitz zoo-one poodle and four cats-in attendance. His regimen includes a strict diet offish, fowl and vegetables, and it shows...
...throughly enjoyable concert Friday evening, when Kirkland's brand new Boesendorfer piano can be heard in its solo recital debut. Seth Carlin will play program featuring Beethoven's oft-featured Waldstein sonata and one of Schoenberg's first serial works, the Five Pieces, Op. 23. Maryse Carlin (playing a Steinway) will join Seth in a performance of the Mozart Sonata for Two Pianos. Also, Brahms: Eight Pieces...
...pianist who has been struggling, like the artists you describe [Sept. 3], with poor concert grands in many musical centers of the Western world, including Paris, London, Brussels and Zurich, I would like to find out when Steinway & Sons (by and large the best pianomakers in the world) will stop making concert grands geared exclusively for the Tchaikovsky. Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Prokofiev type of works and start making again lovely, mellow-sounding instruments suited to playing Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann...