Here’s a lovely photo of Seiji Ozawa, with violinist Itzhak Perlman and cellist Yo Yo Ma posted by the
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where Ozawa was music director for almost three decades.
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Take cover! Gearing up for the Hammerschlag : the hammer blow in Mahler’s 6th Symphony the crucial representation of fate in the finale. Heart-stopping!
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of Johannes Brahms with Marie Soldat for many years the only woman who played his violin concerto. Brahms helped her acquire a Guarneri del Gesu violin now played by Rachel Barton Pine. Soldat also belonged to an all-woman string quartet.
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My father, cellist George Horvath, a member of the Toronto Symphony for 38 years. Here he is early 1940s before being deported to slave labor by the Nazis. I tell his story and of our family in my upcoming book “The Cello Still Sings” preorders from Jan. 1 release February 28.
Beethoven’s
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at the Beethovenhaus Baden, Austria where he lived during the summers of 1821-1823 and composed parts of his 9th Symphony!
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Franz Liszt’s desk in his former home in Budapest. I was able to see it in the same room as his concert grand with bust of
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of youthful Martha Argerich and Claudio Abbado. They met during piano classes of pianist Friedrich Gulda in Salzburg, and in fact, he played so beautifully that she was asked to accompany him!
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Historic photo of two brilliant musicians when they were young and embarking on their luminous careers - maestro Claudio Abbado and pianist Martha Argerich. The partnership resulted in a 2005 Grammy award for Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 and No. 3.
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The grave of Ludwig van Beethoven in Vienna’s Zentralfriedhof cemetery, Austria. It was the 3rd place he was eventually permanently laid to rest. His music forever eternal.
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“ I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts.” — Sergei Rachmaninov here in a spectacular
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My photo of one of the desks of the wonderful pianist Franz Liszt. His home in Budapest, Hungary is now the Liszt Memorial Museum. He evidently composed at his desk as well as the two grand pianos in the room!
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The great violinist Yehudi Menuhin plays
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for his little daughter Zamira. His dog seems to be enjoying it too! —“I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being: a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body, and spirit.”
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“Piano playing consists of common sense, heart, and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession has its hazards.” —Vladimir Horowitz
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Sing for your supper? Rare set of 16th century knives engraved with musical lines for guests to sing before and after dinner. Each knife is intended for soprano, counter-tenor, or mezzo, tenor, and bass! Photo Johan Osterman
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Vladimir Horowitz plays for a tough crowd: Bruno Walter, George Szell, George Balanchine, Edgar Varèse, Nathan Milstein, Carl Friedberg, Leonard Bernstein and crowd at the Soviet Consulate in NY likely 1940s or 50s.
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Pianist Vladimir Horowitz after his triumphant return to the Carnegie Hall stage in 1965 after a 12 year absence. Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt Life Collection/ Getty Photos “False notes are human…You know, perfection itself is imperfection!”
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of Johann Strauss and Johannes Brahms looking dapper! “Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.” — Brahms
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of the incomparable
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Vladimir Horowitz. “Always there should be a little mistake here and there. I am for it. The people who don’t do mistakes are cold like ice. It takes risk to make a mistake. If you don’t take risk, you are boring.”
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Remembering Alma Rosé Austrian virtuoso
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, niece of Gustav Mahler, daughter of Arnold Rosé, longtime concertmaster of Vienna Philharmonic. She was deported to Auschwitz where she perished. She conducted the women’s Auschwitz orchestra and saved many of these women.
Two great artists: Martha Argerich and Maestro Claudio Abbado. “Many people learn how to talk, but they don’t learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that.” —Claudio Abbado
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of Gustav Mahler. “It’s a funny thing but when I am making music all the answers I seek in life seem to be there, in the music. Or rather I should say, when I am making music, there are no questions and no need for answers.”
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My father, cellist George Horvath, a member of the Toronto Symphony for 38 years;here early 1940s before being deported to slave labor by the Nazis. I tell his story and of our family in my new book “The Cello Still Sings.” Order on Amazon
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Did you know Charlie Chaplin not only was a great actor, he composed the music to many of his films and he played both the violin and cello - left handed!
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