Tuesday, Jun 16, 2015
David Dubal, author of Evenings with Horowitz: A Personal Portrait, will join Robert Rinaldi, senior vice president of Jacobs Music, for an informal conversation focusing on the life and music of renowned pianist Vladimir Horowitz on Wednesday, June 24 at 7 p.m. in Williamson Hall on the campus on Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton. Admission is free. The event is presented in conjunction with the Horowitz Steinway piano’s residency at Westminster Choir College. Vladimir Horowitz is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. His colorful personality and astounding performances enthralled audiences for decades. Early in 1934, as a wedding present, Steinway & Sons presented Horowitz and his wife, Wanda, with a Steinway Model D, Serial #279503. In the early 1940’s, this piano was replaced with #314503, now known simply as CD 503. This is the piano Horowitz kept in his New York townhouse. He used it in many recitals and recordings in the 70’s and 80’s, and it was his exclusive touring instrument for the last four years of his life. While the Horowitz Steinway piano is at Westminster, students and alumni of Westminster’s summer programs for high school students will have the opportunity to perform on this fabled instrument. David Dubal is a member of the faculty at the Juilliard School and host of “The Piano Matters,” which airs weekly on WWFM The Classical Network. He is also a winner of the George Foster Peabody Award and the first recipient of the ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award for innovative broadcasting.