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Such response is routine for U.S.-born Pianist Rosalyn Tureck-in Europe. Although Tureck's name is only vaguely known to most U.S. concertgoers, to European audiences it is fast becoming the word for some of the most authoritative Bach interpretation to be found...
Ever since she went to London four years ago, critics have fallen over themselves in praise. Said the London Times: "It is not possible to exaggerate the artistic value of her performance. When Miss Rosalyn Tureck plays Bach, all talk about the necessity of having a harpsichord to recapture Bach's style seems little short of nonsense." The Tablet: "Without doubt, the greatest Bach pianist of today." After last week's performance, Amsterdam's Algemeen Handelsblad said: "One could exhaust oneself in expressions of praise . . . Her interpretation sets a new norm, a standard for the style...
Piano Preferred. Nobody is more surprised by her spectacular success in Europe than 42-year-old Rosalyn Tureck herself. Born in Chicago of Turkish-Ukrainian parents, she was giving all-Bach recitals by the time she was 15. At 16, as an applicant for a scholarship at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, she staggered the judges by offering to ripple off 16 Bach preludes and fugues. In her second year at Juilliard she learned the Goldberg Variations in five weeks, was later told by the president that it was impossible to play the Variations (unmodified) on a piano...
...concert stage, Tureck impressed the critics, but U.S. concertgoers, more accustomed to the Bach credentials of Harpsichordists Wanda Landowska and Ralph Kirkpatrick, were left relatively cool. After a poorly attended concert in Manhattan's Town Hall, the New York Times critic demanded: "Must this great artist go to Europe to be recognized by her own country?" In 1953 she did just that, with such success that she returned in 1954 for four months of solid engagements. Her concerts at London's Albert Hall have sold out months in advance. Twice she has packed the huge Festival Hall...
...awarded $1,000 prizes to the three most worthy applicants for whom the Schubert Memorial will arrange public engagements. Preliminary heats had been held in 36 regional districts. For the Philadelphia finals there were eight nervous survivors. The three big winners: Violinist Joseph Knitzer, 22, from Manhattan; Pianist Rosalyn Tureck, a pupil of Olga Samaroff; Contralto Margaret Harshaw, 23, a stenographer for Bell Telephone Co. in Philadelphia...