However, for Ivan, Vladimir Horowitz was the most completely satisfying pianist, whose playing had a “wild, almost fury.” Ivan described Horowitz as having small hands that were not like the ...

No pianist of the past century captured the public imagination in quite the same way as Horowitz. For more than 50 years, few equalled him in speed, sonority, power and pure edge-of-the-seat ...

The actor Laurence Olivier described it as shattering. The pianist Vladimir Horowitz found it so disabling that he didn't perform for 12 years. Stage fright—also known as performance anxiety ...

The great Ukrainian-American pianist Vladimir Horowitz performed there for the first time in more than half a century. At that time, the border between East and West was impassable. The Cold War ...