An Intimate Portrait of Sidney Foster

Imelda Delgado

doi:10.5771/9780761859352

Summary

The great American pianist Sidney Foster—distinguished professor of piano at Indiana University, and the first Leventritt Award winner—is remembered here by a former student for his outstanding ability and generous character. This book includes commentary by numerous students, professionals in their own right; Mr. Foster’s own words; and his own cadenza to the Third Beethoven Concerto for piano.

(Other compositions, including a song dedicated to Foster’s wife, a piano duet with narration, and a twenty-minute CD of his playing, excerpted from unedited live performances, are available for purchase separately from the author.)

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Copyright year: 2013
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-5934-5
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-5935-2
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 184
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Preface No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
1. Early Years No access
2. Composer No access
3. The Leventritt No access
4. After the Leventritt: LeRoy-Foster-Scholz Trio No access
5. Sidney Foster and Norman Dello Joio No access
6. Stages Where Sidney Foster Walked No access
7. Evolution of Programming No access
8. Orchestral Soloist No access
1. Russian Roots, Russian Legacy No access
2. His Hands No access
3. His Piano Teachers No access
4. Where He Taught No access
5. The Pedagogue No access
6. Collaborator—Indiana University No access
7. The Concert Pianist and the Old World Scholar (An Unusual Partnership) No access
8. Architect of Piano Performance Doctorate No access
1. John No access
2. Anna Diamond Foster and Dorothy Foster DiFazio No access
3. Mana-Zucca (1891-1981) No access
4. Isabelle Vengerova (1877-1956) No access
5. Bronja (Miss Bronja Singer/Mrs. Sidney Foster) No access
6. From the Grande Scale to Gourmet Suppers No access
7. A Little Potpourri No access
1. Memorial to His Father, Louis (1937) No access
2. Concerto Highlights (1954) No access
3. From Fliere to Foster: To Russia, with Love (The Russian Tour, 1964) No access
4. The Boston Premiére of Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto (April, 1965) No access
1. 1976: A Bicentennial and a Centennial No access
2. The Final Curtain No access
3. A Farewell Letter No access
4. February 7, 1977 No access
Appendices No access Pages 111 - 112
Appendix A: In His Own Words: A Piano Workshop No access Pages 113 - 119
Appendix B: The Students Speak No access Pages 120 - 169
Appendix C: Cadenza to the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, OP. 37, 1941 No access Pages 170 - 176
Index No access Pages 177 - 182
About the Author No access Pages 183 - 184