Word: vladimires
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...season opened were: the Chicago (Belgian-born Désiré De-fauw succeeded the late Frederick Stock) ; Cleveland (Austrian-born Erich Leinsdorf, formerly of the Metropolitan Opera House, succeeded the Philharmonic's Rodzinski); Minneapolis (Dimitri Mitropoulos) ; San Francisco (Pierre Monteux) ; Cincinnati (Eugene Goossens); St. Louis (Vladimir Golschmann); Detroit (U.S.-born Karl Krueger had managed to pull things together again after the orchestra became the temporary charge of Sam's Cut-Rate, Inc.-TIME, Oct. 19); Los Angeles (U.S.-born Alfred Wallenstein succeeded a string of guests); National Symphony of Washington, D.C. (Hans Kindler); Pittsburgh (Fritz Reiner); Rochester...
Prokofieff: Classical Symphony (St. Louis Symphony, Vladimir Golschmann conducting; Victor; 4 sides). The deftest work of modern "neoclassicism" (in which composers play with the mannerisms of Corelli's period) is given a performance not quite as neat as Dimitri Mitropoulos' splendid version (Columbia...
Lateness of season is no business handicap to Vladimir Horowitz, the greatest box-office pianist of the day. Last week this sallow, dynamic son-in-law of Arturo Toscanini closed his season with a hot-weather recital in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Critics found his playing below his usual brilliant standards. But the box office took...
...Vladimir Horowitz owes his enormous following to the most amazingly fleet, powerful and accurate fingers in the pianistic world. He can trill with the relentless evenness of a mechanical drill. He can rip off a scale of octaves with a glittering finish that few of his contemporaries can even approach. His performances invariably crackle with electric virtuosity...
...connoisseurs of piano music would place Pianist Horowitz with the top-rank interpretive artists such as Artur Schnabel, Artur Rubinstein, or Walter Gieseking. But in everything involving sheer, crystalline dexterity, Vladimir Horowitz tops every one of them. Son of a Kiev electrical engineer, nephew of a Russian music critic, Vladimir Horowitz gave his first concerts during the dog days of the Russian revolution. He was sometimes paid in butter, flour and cabbages...