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Horowitz Plays Chopin Pieces Sunday
By HARVEY ELLIOTT
DTH Staff Writer
The first television recital
by 64-year-old Russian-born
piano virtuoso Vladimir
Horowitz will be shown this
Sunday night at 9 p.m.
A program of nine
played before, Horowitz began
to make records again.
But . he was still a decade
away from his triumphant
The choice eventually
narrowed down to the three
that comprise the first half of
the program: Ballade in G
1; and
minor,
selections taped last February history.
before an Invited audience at
Carnegie Hall, the CBS color
special will be carried locally
on channel 11.
The broadcast, through
tight shots of Horowitz's hands
on the keys, reflects the
incredible visual as well as aural
impact of his playing.
The cameras bring into
magnified focus the
extraordinary dexterity of
fingers flashing through the
rapid passages, the physical
power and speed of hands, the
intensity and daring and
return, in the spring of 1965, minor, Opus 23; Nocturne in F
minor, Opus 55, No.
Polonaise in F-sharp
Upus 44.
Of the four ballades Chopin
wrote, the G minor was
regarded as "the most spirited
to the concert stage in what
The New York Times called
"one of the most dramatic
evenings in recent musical
With the first commaning
A DTH Preview
notes of the Bach-Busoni
Toccata in C, the audience that
filled Carnegie Hall on that
memorable May afternoon
knew that a new Horowitz had
arrived.
The old nervous energy was
still there, and the unbelievable
..A a m a t
virtuosity, dui mere was no
and daring'
that time.
of his works up to
technical and artistic resources
of the piano as an instrument
to the point where it achieved
complete emancipation and
artistic self-sufficiency.
Two short selections by
Do m en i co Scarlatti, played
without interruption Sonata
in E major and Sonata in G
major follow the Chopin.
"After Chopin, Scarlatti
comes as a reposeful contrast,'
explained Horowitz. "It's easy
to underestimate these! short
Scarlatti sonatas. I have studied
the more than 500. which he
wrote, and I find them full of
variety, imagination and
excitement, as well as strength
and delicacy."
Robert Schumann is also
television hour with his own fiery piece of musk is possibly according to some critics. on channel 1 1.
variations on a Gypsy Song the most phenomenal The time and location for It's Vladimir Horowitz: A
entire annals of piano playing, recital: Sunday night at 9 p.m. Hall. And it's sheer greatness!
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XJNC Airs Beethoven Sonatas
pasdonU of the spectacular displa'for splay's sake,
t,. v... Everything was controlled,
Ironically, scorn for his own artisicallyB aned ana
virtuosity was among the because of that discipline,
factors that drove Horowitz to mnvt v '
exile himself from the public
for 12 long years, from 1953
to 1965.
"I'll never know," the
pianist said when he emerged
from his lengthy sabbatical,
"how I could ever have allowed
myself to land so far from the
destination I had set for myself
in my youth.
"I would rather have done
anything in the world, or
This is passionate represented twice on the
Horowitz special with
Arabesque, Opus 18, and the
familiar, tender "Traumerei."
"Schumann is so
transparent and yet so
profound," Horowitz states.
"The Arabesque is a
reminiscence, a musical water
color. Traumerei' is a gentle
reverie. Schumann has the gift
of making every note
contribute to a musical
This is the Vladimir
Horowitz television viewers
will see and hear Sunday night
on Channel 11 in a close-up,
visually detailed performance
that no concert hall could
possibly provide.
When Horowitz agreed to
do his first recital on television,
nothing at all," he said,than there arose the question of just style and in increasing both the
music, d lending iiery ana
tender moods with tragic
undertones and ending in a
discord.
As for the F-minor
Nocturne," Horowitz
explained, it is an exquisitly
poetic meditation. But the
F-sharp Polonaise is something
else again.
Chopin himself describes
the Polonaise as "more a
fantasia." Horowitz calls it
"Chopin transforming his
emotions about his native
Poland into tragic grandeur."
In these works, as in all of
his output, Chopin obtained
color effects, sonorities and
dynamics which no one before
him had realized.
No other composer was as
influential in developing
modern piano technique and
meaning.
"Another composer for
whom I have always had a
special sympathy is Alexander
Scriabin, which is why I
selected his Etude in D-sharp
minor, Opus 8, No. 12,"
Horowitz said.
"This etude is more familiar
than most of his pieces, but it
combines breshness of feeling
with great dramatic intensity."
Horowitz concludes his
A full year of work has gone
into University Television's
(Channel 4) new series
"Beethoven: The Sonatas." It
will premiere on October 7,
bringing to viewers for the first
time on any television station
all 32 of Beethoven's piano
sonatas.
Made possible through the
joint efforts of University
Television and the UNC
Department of Music, the
series will feature six North
Carolina pianists William S.
Newman, Clifton Matthews,
Betty Bullock Talbot, Wilton
Mason, Barbara Rowan, and
Michael Zenge. The series is
produced and directed by Bill
Hannah.
"Beethoven: The Sonatas"
can be seen on Monday
evenings at 8:30 beginning
October 7. Each program will
be repeated the following
Sunday at 5:30 in the
afternoon. The series will
continue for 24 weeks and will
include performances of all of
the Beethoven sonatas, with
commentary upon their
-significance.
The twenty-four week series
will present the sonatas in the
order in which they were
written, thereby giving the
viewer an idea of Beethoven's
artistic growth in the sonata
form.
Michael Zenge will act as
host for the series,
supplementing the
performance of each sonata
"with commentary upon its
significance in Beethoven's
development He. will also
appear as pianist on several of
the programs. Zenge is an
instructor in piano in the
Department of Music :
Other performers include
Betty Bullock Talbot, who has
been known to North Carolina
audiences since she was
thirteen and played with the
North Carolina Symphony. She
is a graduate of Oberlin
Conservatory, and has studied
and performed in Germany and
Switzerland.
A native of California,
Barbara Rowan has made her
home in Chapel Hill since
joining the staff of the
Department of Music four
years ago. She teaches piano
and theory, and is called upon
frequently to serve as a judge
for various piano contests
throughout the state.
William S. Newman, an
Alumni Distinguished Professor
of Music at Chapel Hill, is an
authority on the sonata form.
He has recently published a
three volume work, "A History
of the Sonata Idea." He is
Chairman of Instruction in
Piano and Director of Graduate
Music Studies at the University
of North Carolina. Clifton
Matthews is an Instructor in
piano and music appreciation
at the University. Originally
from Kansas, he studied at
Julliard School of Music in
New York and won a
Full bright grant to study with
Friedrich Wuhrer in Munich.
Wilton Mason Has been a
frequent guest on University
Television, both as performer
and as commentator. He is the
Chairman of the Department
of Music.
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continue to be a sort of
glorified juggler. I never
wanted to become 'superman
of the piano."
At 48, after, in his own
words, "31 years of constant
travel, uncomfortable trains,
drafty halls, bad hotels and
worse food, of being always
exposed to public and critics
and of having to be 'superman'
. all the time," Horowitz retired
to take stock of himself and of
the future.
There followed a year of
silence and self-appraisal,
during which he never even
touched his piano.
After another year of
practicing the standard
literature and studying music
that he had never seen or
what, of all his vast repertoire,
the world-famous piano
virtuoso should play on a
one-hour broadcast
"Under no circumstances
would I play down to the
audience," Horowitz said. "In
the many years I have played
in the United States, I have
learned that audiences here
recognize and want to hear the
finest music. But there is so
much beautiful music!"
The works of t Frederic
Chopin were inevitably among
the first under consideration.
Chopin's nocturnes do for a
pianist's soul what the etudes
do for his fingers and what the
waltzes, polonaises and
mazurkas do for his sense of
rhythm. But which Chopin?
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