The News looked into the Horowitz Piano Series, from its inception to Vladimir Horowitz’s relationship with Yale, and offers a preview of the 2023-2024 season. For 23 years, Morse Recital Hall has ...

[Horowitz plays Rachmaninov's Polka de V.R.] Peter Gelb: What Horowitz did was he selected a program that enabled him to reserve what he used to call the 'pyrotechnics.' That was his name for it, for ...

[Horowitz plays Rachmaninov's Prelude Op. 32 No. 12] He had, you know, very close relations spiritually and personally with Rachmaninov. For example, one of the stories that Horowitz used to tell me, ...

John Edward Hasse’s interesting and informative history of composer John Philip Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes Forever” (“Patriotism, Energy and Optimism,” Masterpiece, July 2) recognizes classical ...

With the increasing role of technology in today’s music world, computer-generated music and compressed audio files can take precedence over sitting down at a concert to enjoy a live performance. In ...

No pianist of our time has had a more curious history than Vladimir Horowitz. After a brief but brilliant career in Europe he made his American debut in 1928 at the age of twenty-four. It was no easy ...

Rudolf Serkin and Vladimir Horowitz were close contemporaries. By the time the Austrian Serkin (born in 1903) and the Russian Horowitz (a year younger) immigrated to America in the late 1930s, they ...

Seven years ago a sleek, pale-faced young Russian Jew rushed up the back steps of Manhattan’s Carnegie Hall, tore off his coat and hat, took a photograph of Liszt from his pocket, glanced at it ...

Allegro. He is born on Musikalnyi Peruelok — Music Street — in Kiev. His uncle is a music critic, his mother a brilliant amateur pianist. At the age of ten he memorizes the piano scores of Tannhäuser, ...