Watch: Horowitz plays White House recital for Jimmy Carter
Daily Comfort ZoneThe way we were.
The President introduces a pianist’s anniversary recital. Unmissable.
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Great to see this!
Thank you for this.
Carter was genuinely a classical-music lover. Someone should tell that story during these days
A lovely event, though I will never understand the popularity of his clangorous pianism.
Then why was it a “lovely” event?
You would benefit from Pres. Carter’s introduction-but probably not.
In Carter’s memoirs, he talks about how a friend in his dorm at the US Naval Academy would play classical recordings, leaning heavily towards piano concertos. There would be listening sessions where the young midshipmen would hear different interpretations of the same work. Carter was a man of boundless humanity and curiosity. RIP
Wonderful story about Carter and his Naval Academy roommate spending their entire salaries on classical records — and comparing different performances of the core repertory.
Well, listen and watch those octaves in the Polonaise and Carmen and you feel your hair stand on end. Nobody EVER could do that (arguably of course). The question is, do you want the “frisson” of a high wire act or his more telling and ever individual musical observations that served the music he played in his personal, inimitable way?
I heard him live at his 1976 Minneapolis recital – stage seat no less.
Videos, recordings like this approximate what I remember. But most of all I learned there that his iconic acrobatics were PART of his immense gifts . That afternoon had them all.
The great Obama couldn’t pronounce “Argerich” right…
I remember that-but what struck me was that he didn’t have the slightest idea who she was
In watching it, noticed a familiar looking forehead right behind Horowitz and I thought, is that Samuel Barber? So I checked and according to press reports, he was there. Check out 25:09, just to the right of Horowitz. Wow, I wish he had done Barber’s Excursions. (I think the Piano Sonata might have been a bridge too far for that setting, unfortunately.)