Word: vladimires
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Vladimir Horowitz, pianist; Victor, 7 sides). Ravel, Stokowski & Co. turned Mussorgsky's fine, delicate "pictures" into big, gaudy orchestral frescoes; Pianist Horowitz has returned them, in splendid condition, to the instrument Mussorgsky wrote them for. Recording: fair...
...honor: 1) the town of Mariupol, where he was born; 2) the Tagansky District of Moscow; 3) the Primorsky District of Leningrad; 4) Rozhdestvenka Street in Moscow; 5) the Izhora Shipbuilding Works; 6) Moscow's Exemplar Printing Works; 7) the Krasnoye-Sormovo Metal Works; 8) the Vladimir Tractor Works; 9) the Leningrad State University; 10) the Naval Political Academy in Leningrad; 11) the Pioneers' Palace in Leningrad; 12) the Krasnoselskaya Division of the 45th Guards...
...Theater was conceived in an 18-hour café conversation between two fervent young men: Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, who became its administrator, and Konstantin Stanislavsky, its guiding spirit. Stanislavsky (whose dressing room is kept as he left it at his death in 1938) was a brilliant actor, director and author. He taught a new, true-to-life style of acting that was widely imitated. He built a large repertory of classics, trained his players as a team with no stars...
...been three years since Pianist Vladimir Horowitz had played in public with father-in-law Arturo Toscanini. But they had played the work together before, and recorded it together-Brahms's mighty Piano Concerto No. 2. This time, at the end of the rehearsal, the Maestro had only one suggestion for "Volodya": Toscanini trotted to the piano, plunked out a passage while Soloist Horowitz, standing by and towering over him, listened carefully and respectfully. They agreed to leave out one retard...
...Race. Most listeners had lately found a new maturity and depth-if not yet real warmth-in the playing of Vladimir Horowitz, the sallow, thin-faced Russian who first astounded the U.S. 20 years ago with his mastery of piano technique...