In the winter of 1928 a sallow, jittery, 23-year-old Russian pianist named Vladimir Horowitz made a sensational Manhattan debut at a Carnegie Hall concert under the baton of gouty Sir Thomas Beecham.
Saturday night was a very unusual night in Carnegie Hall. Angel Blue, the starry soprano from California ... So has Mitsuko Uchida. Horowitz played for Fischer-Dieskau (how ’bout that?). The first ...