Horowitz Piano Series inception. Robert Blocker, a professor of piano, served as dean of the School of Music from 1995 to 2023. He recalled trying to find a way to acknowledge Horowitz’s legacy and ...

The pianist Emanuel Ax explained it this way to the New York Times: ”I knew people who worshiped Horowitz, as I did, and I knew people who hated him.

Pianist Vladimir Horowitz, who left his homeland 61 years ago vowing never to return, arrived in the Soviet capital Monday as a self-proclaimed ambassador of peace. Among the throng of Soviet ...

Horowitz was an instant sensation in Europe, and in 1928 he hit America, romping through Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the New York Philharmonic. Eventually, Horowitz decided to make ...

Vladimir Horowitz, whose brilliant technique and emotional profundity led many to consider him the 20th century’s greatest pianist, died on Sunday at his townhouse on New York City’s upper ...

The star of the classical musical tour now passing through our area weighs a corpulent 990 pounds-more than three Pavarottis-and must travel from city to city in the back of a moving van, ingloriou… ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff called him the greatest pianist of the 20th century, but Vladimir Horowitz was filled with self-doubt. After a self-imposed 12-year exile, Horowitz triumphed when he returned ...

For pianist Lyndon Ji ’16 MUS ’29, a current student of Yang, what makes the Horowitz Series such a treasure is not the guest artists but the faculty concerts. According to Ji, the big names will sell ...

On Wednesday, Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m., world-renowned pianist Emanuel Ax will perform Beethoven’s “Appassionata” Sonata and music by Schoenberg in Morse Recital Hall. The concert is part of the Horowitz ...

Vladimir Horowitz, who took Moscow by storm last spring after a self-imposed exile, will attempt to repeat his much-publicized triumph next month in Chicago.The legendary pianist is scheduled to ...