Olga Samaroff News
American pianist (1880–1948)
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- United States of America
- pianist, music teacher, music critic
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2018-10-20 18:32:00
[…] days, in our supposedly enlghtened times when "intellectual" and "creative" are terms of abuse. Later, his protégé, José Serebrier, recorded the piece in London, using Stokowski's principles of orchestral preparation. Please read more HERE about the relationship between Stokowski and Serebrier, which endured until Stokowski's death. Just the account of how they met is fascinating. In many ways, Serebrier continues Stokowski's legacy. At some stage, possibly under the influence of his first wife, the pianist Olga Samaroff, Stokowski adopted a "slavic" persona. Samaroff was in fact born Lucy Hildenlooper in Texas, but in those days having an exotic background helped create careers. Whether real Russian or Polish people could see through the pretence didn't matter. Nowadays such things would trigger counter-terrorist and money laundering systems. By 1940, however, Stokowski was well established and able to tell the US census that he was British born, though he shaved five years off his […]
2014-05-09 04:33:53
Guy Hutchins (1905-1997) Musical Mentor & Cherished Friend
[…] education in the African-American schools of Kershaw County. Upon his return to South Carolina, Guy became involved as a mentor in the music department at the University of SC through SCORE, a Carter Administration initiative that employed the mentoring skills of retired executives and educators. Afternoon tea at Stokowski’s home in Maine, 1919 with, right to left, Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch, Nina Gabrilowitsch, pianist and conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Leopold Stokowski and his wife, Olga Samaroff Stokowski
2012-01-12 20:02:41
[…] however, and the Nazi advance across Europe, it soon became clear that the family was not safe. Following the fortunate escape from the concentration camp, he and his mother made their way from Turkey to Israel, where Weissenberg studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and performed with the Israel Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein.In 1946 he migrated to the US, enrolling at the Juilliard School of Music in New York as a pupil of Olga Samaroff. The following year, having won the Leventritt International competition, he made his New York debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under George Szell playing Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 3 – a work that was to become something of a signature piece for him and of which he made three recordings, with Georges Prêtre, Seiji Ozawa and Bernstein.Over the following decade he came to prominence in the US and Europe, but in 1957, having moved the […]
2012-01-11 16:44:33
Bulgarian-born French concert pianist Alexis Weissenberg, considered one of the great classical music performers of the 20th century, has died on Sunday at 82, in his home in Lugano, after a 30-year-long fight against Parkinson’s disease. “A virtuoso musician and a big-hearted man who spared no effort to cultivate new generations of piano players has left us,” Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov said in a statement. Bulgarian Culture Minister Vezhdi Rashidov described Weissenberg as “one of the greatest piano players of the 20th century” and said he felt “enormous pain” at the news of his death. Weissenberg was a specialist in the music of Bach and Rachmaninov. In 1943 he entered the Jerusalem Academy of Music and performed under Leonard Bernstein, and then continued his studies at New York’s Juilliard School of Music with Olga Samaroff. He won the prestigious Leventritt Competition at only 17 and started a flamboyant international career […]
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