http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/ Vladimir Horowitz Group Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:41:30 GMT publius85 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5385 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5385 Hmm. Didn't Antonio Banderas' character say that exact quote at the end of the film "Assassins" after Sylvester Stallone's character quit the business? Or Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:06:37 GMT amarknicholls http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5384 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5384 Thought this was interesting: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/classical/article6904982.ece "Stephen Hough is more Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:34:04 GMT Derek Oppen http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5383 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5383 Gotta be bogus. I think VH had a great sense of humour and talked nonsense knowing that gullible folks would believe him. Read much of Dubal's Conversations Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:29:05 GMT Katsu http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5382 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5382 Thank you, everyone! Now I am sure my understanding is correct and that episode is nothing but a made-up story. Unfortunately, though, since the passages had Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:40:04 GMT Hank http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5381 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5381 Except that Kapell's record company was also Horowitz's record company. And considering that Horowitz's producer at the time, Jack Pfeiffer, was also Kapell's Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:45:57 GMT amarknicholls http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5380 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5380 ... Despite the fact that Horowitz was highly narcissistic, insecure, child-ish/like, frequently bitchy and unkind (as well as the opposite of all these), and Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:00:41 GMT Hank http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5379 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5379 Wikipedia has its issues - the most problematic, which Joe pointed out, is that anyone can add or delete information from an article. Many editors, myself Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:42:24 GMT jsalerno@... http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5378 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5378 I think the statement is absurd, and coming from Wiki makes me doubt it even more. So many things are attributed to famous people but with so little Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:28:59 GMT Hank http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5377 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5377 That was also mentioned in David Dubal's Evenings with Horowitz. Interesting info about the "corrrect" Kriesleriana being included in the Japanese set. The Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:40:05 GMT Frank Steven http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5376 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5376 There was a newspaper report that Horowitz was dining at Maxwell's Plum (a restaurant on Manhattan's East Side) the day that Liberace died. A patron came up to Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:20:55 GMT Hank http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5375 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5375 I have been studying Horowitz for over 25 years and I have never heard of him making this comment. As an editor of Wikipedia, I can assure you, not everything Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:07:12 GMT Katsu http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5374 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5374 In Japan, some people are prevailing the rumour that, on hearing the death of William Kapell, Horowitz said somthing like "Now I am the No.1!" Do you happen to Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:05:45 GMT Katsu http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5373 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5373 Complete Set released from Sony Japan http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/switch-language/product/B002IUBHEI/ref=dp_change_lang?ie=UTF8&language=en%5FJP I do not know Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:03:02 GMT Katsu http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5372 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5372 Today I received an email from Sony Music Japan as an answer to my inquiry. As for Schumann's Kreisleriana (CBS) and Sonata Op.14 (RCA), they say the genuine Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:48:30 GMT Michael Brown http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5371 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_horowitz_experience/message/5371 he died. RIP maestro! -- MRB http://www.fuguewriter.com