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Rudolph Serkin: a Life - Book Reviewby dint of Stephen Lehmann and Marion Faber. Oxford University Pres (198 Madison Ave., fresh York, NY 10016), 2003. 360 pp $35 Three major pianists, Rudolf Serkin, Claudio Arrau and Wilhelm Kempff died in 1991 Arrau's make notess on his life and art are rest in Joseph Horowitz's superb Arrau upon Music and Performance. Kempff's sum of two units memoirs, published in German and still untranslated, are difficult to obtain. A fine biography of Serkin appeared early in 2003 Coauthors Stephen Lehmann and Marion Faber divide their work into two parts. In the first, Serkin's life is traced from his unassuming origins in Bohemia to his inquiry in Vienna, his European career, and his American performing and teaching career. The authors describe influences and clan who formed him musically, intellectually and politically. His application of mind and association with Schonberg are quite revealing. For this reader, the pain is still immediate as the Nazi shutdown of his professional life in Central Europe is related. Touching, too, is the loyalty between Serkin, the hebrew and his beloved father-in-law and sonata partner, the German violinist Adolf Busch. In 1939 Serkin mov to the United States. Accounts of his association with Toscanini, Casals, Ormandy, Szell the Curtis Institute and the Marlboro Festival exhibit us a person who powerfully influenced the performance and teaching of classical music in America for about fifty years. His legacy reach forths well beyond piano playing. The next to the first part of the book focuses upon three aspects of Serkin's professional legacy: performing, teaching and the Marlboro Music place of education and Festival. Each section lists the authors' make comments [i]or[/i] remarkss followed by interviews with associates and pupils of Serkin. Among them are Eugene Istomin, Claude Frank, compassion Laredo, Richard Goode, Lee Luvisi and Arnold Steinhardt, all musicians of distinction. Istomin's remarks upon Serkin as a performer are especially eloquent The volume is well documented. Editorial errors are minimal. Appendices provide a discography and programs of Serkin's forty-six Carnegie Hall recitals. A list of his seventy-two Curtis scholars should have been included. Phillips's CD series, Great Pianists of the 20th hundred allots Arran and Kempff three albums each. Serkin earns one. Phillips's undervaluing of a sixty-year major career is apparent when comparing Serkin's recording of Beethoven's "Diabelli" Variations with that of Maria Yudina's, who also receives individual album in the series. Serkin's admirer Vladimir Horowitz would doubtless disapprove this shortchanging of his friend. We can be pleased that a CD tend hitherwards with this book, containing previously unreleased Serkin performances of Bach's French Suite No. 5 six Mendelssohn pieces and Chopin's Etude Op 25 Reviewed through Richard Zimdars, Athens, Georgia. COPYRIGHT 2003 Music Teachers National Association, Inc. SANTA MONICA, CA -- TV as a medium may before long revolutionize the fine art marketplace when the Art Television Network (ATN) first appearances in January 2005. Developed to deliver mass-media in all senses of fine a... Tables S1 and S4 deal with the nominal due outstanding of the public sector and the national liability Table S2.4 Public sector finances: generally received receipts. First published in the August 1999 edition ... A blip upon the flat line of corporate communication: I wanted to annotate on Steve Crescenzo's great article "It's Time to Admit the Hard Truth: We're Not Photographers" ["Editor's A... Appearances can be deceiving-especially in external space. 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