7:23-9:00 has segment on horowitz - first some tv films "on the street" of people waiting to buy tickets for the 1965 return, then 1968 "project x" scriabin d#...
When Dr. Thomas Sculco, one of the foremost orthopedic surgeons first met his new patient, Vladimir Horowitz, his concern he tells host Gilbert Kaplan, was to...
... There has been much publicity about the Horowitz pianos , but I was always curious to know what happened to Mr. Horowitz's concert bench; the bench Mr....
That is interesting. Of course, Glenn Gould sat notoriously low, much lower than that. By contrast, I was always taught to heighten the bench more than...
... that one can get strength from the back and use less arm motion. it seems that horowitz's technical thrust was to -concentrate- energy as close to the...
... In truth, I have never understood the widely expressed idea that raising a piano stool higher offers more weight. Consider a person doing chin-ups on a...
I'm sure you're right about the weight transfer. I'll defer to physics over superstition. Most likely, an ideal position depends on the person's body frame...
Sorry! Forgot one thing: I don't think arm weight by itself does that much for sound anyway. By sitting higher, I get most of my volume from the weight of my...
... that much for sound anyway. By sitting higher, I get most of my volume from the weight of my upper body and move my arms as little off the keys as...
"For me, I prefer to have my lower arms parallel to the floor at the keys, so sitting higher seems to work for me." I'd certainly never disagree with that...
... although it wouldn't really matter, as music really comes from the heart, and there would be no way to conclude how to sound more moving. Also, on a...
... chromatic notes being stronger and resolutions being weaker that is very interesting, taken in conjunction with the criticism of horowitz's '78 rach iii...
... phrases ... coloring. ... Look at his tone in the D sharp minor etude of Scriabin. The E sharp resolves the D sharp in the melody, in spite of the heated...
ON nights past at the Fife 'n Drum Restaurant in Kent [Conn.] , the great concert pianist Vladimir Horowitz, who lived across the street, played imaginary...
... i'm very interested on this: November 17, 1974: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, New York (Live) Clementi: Sonata in F-sharp minor, Op.26 No.2 ...
I have both. The sound of the Hollywood Bowl concert is excruciating. The only interesting thing about it is that he appears (to my ears) to add some extra...
... excruciating. The ... York ... Any chance you might be able to upload the Met recital to rapidshare (or similar)?... Would love to hear that! Mark...
I recently re-read the Horowitz chapter in Helen Epstein's 'Music Talks', and found reference to H's diary: 'I have my diary but I don't want to read it to...
I'd also be very interested in hearing the Met concert from 1974, if only to see how the recording matches my memory of that afternoon, when at age 13 I heard ...
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