Word: horowitz
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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When Pianist Vladimir Horowitz canceled a concert his three physicians explained: "traumatic tenosynovitis of the flexor digitorum sublimis and profundis muscles at the metacarpophalangeal joint." He had a sore hand...
...heretofore regarded as its rival, is the American Guild of Musical Artists (also an A. F. of L. affiliate)-1,800 concert musicians, headed by Baritone Lawrence Tibbett. Boss Petrillo singled out A. G. M. A.'s instrumentalists-including Violinists Jascha Heifetz and Efrem Zimbalist, Pianists Vladimir Horowitz and Jose Iturbi-and commanded them to join A. F. of M. by Labor Day. The alternative: they would be barred from radio and recording. The catch: once in A. F. of M. they would be forbidden to play as soloists with the Boston Symphony. Asked Mr. Petrillo: "Since when...
...poor men of Europe is Albania's ex-King Zog, who has trouble getting up his rent (TIME, April 8). Last week ex-King Zog, who now lives in a suburb of Paris, had money trouble with another exile. One Arthur Horowitz, ex-Viennese ex-furrier, sued him for $100,000, which, ex-Furrier Horowitz claimed, the ex-King had spent on furs for ex-Queen Geraldine and three ex-Princesses, his sisters. Ex-King Zog replied through his lawyers that he felt under no obligation to pay, since his ex-friends, the Italians, had taken the furs along...
Then, at the height of his career, in 1935, Pianist Horowitz cracked up. Soon after leaving the U. S. for a year's European tour he was laid low by an appendectomy complicated by phlebitis. For months he was unable to touch the piano. For two years he convalesced at his home in Switzerland. Only in 1938 was he able to get back to a concert platform, and then only for a few scattered recitals in European capitals. But last week, on a new U. S. tour, Pianist Horowitz made a comeback at Carnegie Hall. Manhattan concertgoers proved they...
Said Pianist Horowitz of his hibernation: "I think I really began to live then. For years I had been playing constantly...