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  Olga Samaroff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samaroff was born Lucy Mary Olga Agnes Hickenlooper in San Antonio, Texas (or Galveston, Texas), United States.
Samaroff made her New York debut at Carnegie Hall in 1905 (the first woman ever to do so), with conductor Walter Damrosch, and played extensively in the United States and Europe thereafter.
Samaroff discovered Stokowski when he was a church organist in Philadelphia and introduced him to a number of her distinguished contacts helping him launch his own career as a conductor.
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 Handbook of Texas Online:
Olga Samaroff (born Lucie Hickenlooper), concert pianist, author, and teacher, the daughter of Carlos and Jane (Loening) Hickenlooper, was born in San Antonio, Texas, on August 8, 1882.
Samaroff's pedagogical method stressed artistic independence, the concept that each student was to work out his individual approach on a composition.
Olga Samaroff died in New York City on May 17, 1948, and her body was cremated.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/SS/fsa47.html   (790 words)

  
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Olga, part of a group of monoliths called the Olgas, is also located in the...
George married Grand Duchess Olga, a niece of Alexander II of Russia.
His first wife was the pianist and teacher Olga Samaroff.
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 International Piano Archives at Maryland, UM Libraries
Madame Olga Samaroff-Stokowski (nee Lucy Mary Olga Agnes Hickenlooper) was born in San Antonio, Texas, August 8, 1880, while her father was an officer in the United States Army stationed there.
An injury to her left arm in 1926 compelled Samaroff to cancel all concerts for the season, after which she accepted the position of chief music critic of the New York Evening Post which she continued for two years.
Samaroff died after a brief illness on May 17, 1948 in her New York apartment.
www.lib.umd.edu /PAL/IPAM/IPAMsamaroff.html   (951 words)

  
 Amazon.com: An American Virtuoso on the World Stage: Olga Samaroff Stokowski: Books: Donna Staley Kline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Olga Samaroff Stokowski was a virtuoso of world class who concertized widely in the United States and Europe from 1905 to about 1926.
Kline is particularly good at describing Samaroff's teaching methods and her indefatigable work as a spokesman and organizer for the cause of music education.
Kline describes an incident that occurred in 1917, when Samaroff was playing the second Saint-Saens Piano Concerto with Stokowski conducting, and he stormed off the stage in the middle of the performance, leaving her alone at the piano (p.
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 Donna Staley Kline An American Virtuoso on the World Stage (Olga Samaroff Stokowski) | Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops
For those unfamiliar with her career, Olga Samaroff Stokowski may be known primarily for her tumultuous marriage to renowned conductor Leopold Stokowski.
Donna Staley Kline's biography reveals Olga as the driving and shaping force behind her husband's genius and offers the first considered look at a pioneering woman whose own career was marked by improbable firsts.
Olga's life story is of an American progressive who sought innovation and excellence and refused to yield to themusical establishment - and it is a story that has waited to be told.
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 Penn Special Collections - Music/Eugene Ormandy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Two days following, the pianist and pedagogue Olga Samaroff Stokowski penned her recommendation for Stokowski's replacement to then Orchestra Board President Curtis Bok.
Samaroff, by this time many years divorced from Stokowski, was a respected member of the Philadelphia music community and a long-time friend of the Bok family.
Her emphatic endorsement of Ormandy is indicative of the impression the young conductor had made on many of Philadelphia's musical elite during his early appearances with the Orchestra.
www.library.upenn.edu /exhibits/rbm/music/eugene.html   (94 words)

  
 Jerome Lowenthal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He has played sonatas with Itzhak Perlman, piano duos with Ronit Amir, his late wife and Ursula Oppens, as well as quintets with the Lark Quartet, Avalon Quartet, and Shanghai Quartet.
His studies included lessons with Olga Samaroff in Philadelphia, William Kapell and Eduard Steuermann at the Juilliard School in New York, and Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique de Paris in Paris, France.
A prizewinner at Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels (1960) and Busoni Competition, he is a frequent judge in international piano competitions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jerome_Lowenthal   (313 words)

  
 Amazon.de:  An American Virtuoso on the World Stage: Olga Samaroff Stokowski: English Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Born Lucy Hickenlooper on an army post in Texas in 1880, she became the first American admitted to the Paris conservatory.
"Samaroff's tumultous life and whirlwind career on two continents, set in the context of two world wars, has been carefully researched and lovingly described by Donna Staley Kline in this excellent book, which should be required reading for all music students.
It is irrelevant whether Olga Samaroff was a great virtuoso.
www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0890966915   (309 words)

  
 American Virtuoso   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Early this century, when the concert stage was ruled by men and Old World prejudices, a young Texan named Lucy Hickenlooper reinvented herself as Olga Samaroff—international concert pianist.
Samaroff was even the driving force behind her husband's career, having arranged for his first position as a conductor.
Her years on the faculty of Juilliard and of the Philadelphia Conservatory launched the first generation of America-born, American-trained concert pianists.
www.tamu.edu /upress/BOOKS/1997/kline.htm   (172 words)

  
 classical music: notturnos (transcriptions liebesträume entertaining)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Olga Samaroff was one of the first American musicians to earn an international reputation and career, but she retired early to become a very successful teacher.
Most of them were made by the acoustical process, resulting in very limited fidelity.
But since Samaroff insisted on a grand piano, we can still hear the heroic power of her Chopin Third Sonata finale and the amazing Hutchinson transcription of...
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 AllRefer.com - Olga Samaroff (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Olga Samaroff, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
Olga Samaroff[sumA´rOf] Pronunciation Key, 1882–1948, American pianist and educator, whose real name was Hickenlooper, b.
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 Austin-Bergstrom News Release for January 14, 2003
A loving cup trophy and program from this competition are among items displayed as well as a CD autographed by Cliburn.
Additionally, the classical exhibit presents Olga Samaroff, first director of the Houston Philharmonic Society.
Born Lucie Marie Olga Hickenlooper in San Antonio, Texas in 1880, she became the first American woman accepted into the piano division of the Paris Conservatory of Music in 1896.
www.ci.austin.tx.us /austinairport/nr1_14_03.htm   (1397 words)

  
 ezFolk Media Store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
by: Olga Samaroff, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Fryderyk Chopin, Claude Debussy, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Paul Juon, Ernesto Lecuona, Franz Liszt
But since Samaroff insisted on a grand piano, we can still hear the heroic power of her Chopin Third Sonata finale and the amazing Hutchinson transcription of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries.
This disc is a limited but precious souvenir of a great artist.
www.ezfolk.com /cgi-bin/ae.pl?asinsearch=B000000WWS   (136 words)

  
 International Piano Archives at Maryland, UM Libraries
After graduating high school at age 15, Lunde studied with the renowned Danish pianist Gunnar Johansen, and with Harold Logan, both of whom were pupils of Egon Petri.
In 1940 she received a four year fellowship for study at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City where her teacher was Olga Samaroff-Stokowski.
Madame Samaroff considered Lunde to be one of the most promising students she had encountered and forecast a brilliant career for her.
www.lib.umd.edu /PAL/IPAM/IPAMmadsen.html   (425 words)

  
 classical music - andante - rosalyn tureck, the "high priestess of bach," is dead at 88
One of her piano teachers was Sophia Brilliant-Liven, a student of Anton Rubinstein, to whom Tureck traced her technique.
She attended the Juilliard School, where she studied with Olga Samaroff; during her tenure there she made her Carnegie Hall debut performing on the theremin, the electronic instrument invented by Leon Theremin, with whom she had studied.
In 1936, at age 22, she made her New York orchestral debut, performing Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=21596   (410 words)

  
 PianoatPepper.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
His books and editions have become classic standards in the studios of serious piano teachers and students the world over.
This session will focus on the life and teaching of Olga Samaroff.
One of her early recordings will be heard and her unique way of matching students with wealthy donors will be explored.
www.jwpepper.com /bio_maurice_hinson.html   (199 words)

  
 James Mathis In Concert | ArkivMusic
He began his studies with Dr. Paul van Katwijk who was a former conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (1925-1937).
Later he went to New York where he studied at Juilliard with Olga Samaroff-Stokowski and then the incomparable Rosina Lhevinne.
After completing his Masters Degree at the Juilliard School, he went to study in Rome and Vienna with Carlo Zecchi, the teacher of among others John Ogden, Peter Frankl and Joseph Kalichstein.
www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?album_id=61086   (427 words)

  
 Thomas Schippers - Music Downloads - Online
He continued his piano studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia (1944-1945).
He also studied privately with Olga Samaroff (1946-1947).
He went on to Yale University, where he had some lessons in composition with Paul Hindemith.
musicstore.connect.com /artist/122/304/19/12230419.html   (477 words)

  
 Amazon.de:  An American Virtuoso on the World Stage: Olga Samaroff Stokawski: English Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Amazon.de:  An American Virtuoso on the World Stage: Olga Samaroff Stokawski: English Books
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 Frances Clark Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
One of the most influential American musicians in the first half of the 20th century, artist-teacher Olga Samaroff Stokowski (1882-1948) nurtured the musical expression and discipline of many pianists at the Philadelphia Conservatory and the Juilliard School of Music from 1924 to 1948.
Debra Brubaker Burns researches historical topics in piano pedagogy, giving particular attention to societal and technological changes that have influenced music-teaching methods.
Daily at 1:00 three publishers will present showcase sessions in which authors of new materials will discuss their works.
www.francesclarkcenter.org /NationalConferencePages/2005/NCKP2005MoreHighlights.html   (251 words)

  
 Composer Ellis Kohs Dies at 84   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
LOS ANGELES — Ellis Kohs, a composer of "considerable scope and eloquence," according to former Los Angeles Times music critic Martin Bernheimer, and a teacher and theorist who served on the composition faculty at the University of Southern California School of Music for 38 years, died Wednesday of leukemia.
A native of Chicago, Kohs earned a degree at the University of Chicago, studied with Olga Samaroff Stokowski at the Juilliard School in New York City, then attended Harvard University, where his principal teachers included Walter Piston and Willi Apel.
Kohs served as a bandmaster in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1943 to 1946.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Hewitt's ambitious recording project of all the major keyboard works by Bach, and her training as a dancer, give her the perfect background to discuss this subject.
The Legacy of Olga Samaroff Stokowski --July 17, Maurice Hinson
Olga Samaroff Stokowski (1880-1948) was the great American piano teacher at The Juilliard School during the first half of the 20th century.
www.cwu.edu /~breedlov/Com348/piano/lecture.html   (354 words)

  
 Editorial Musings- Sept. 2001
When I set out to research missing names I limited it to historic women, no longer living.
I am happy to tell you, though, that the 2001 edition of Bakers Biographical Dictionary of Musicians still includes Farnadi, Hinderas and Somer, (but has also dropped Samaroff!!).
Other historic women pianists Bakers includes, that the New Grove never has, are: Adele aus der Ohe, Ruth Deyo, Ania Dorfmann, Katherine Heyman, Erika Lie-Nissen, Anna Mehlig, Marie Pachler-Koschak and Antoinette Szumowska.
www.pianowomen.com /musings0901.html   (661 words)

  
 Olga Lyrics from Boleros
Se Me Olvido Otra Vez - Olga Guillot*
Cuando Vuelva a Tu Lado - Olga Guillot*
Olga Guillot, La Reyna Del Bolero, Voy - La Noche De Anoche - La Gloria Eres Tu
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 Barnes & Noble.com - Artist Bio
William Kapell was one of the most promising American pianists of the post-War generation, producing a few recordings that have attained legendary status after his untimely death.
He studied in New York with Dorothea Anderson la Follett, and then at the Philadelphia Conservatory with Olga Samaroff.
He went to the Juilliard School when she relocated there.
music.barnesandnoble.com /search/artistBio.asp?z=y&CTR=32450   (222 words)

  
 School of Music and Dance Faculty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
He has audited master classes given by Olga Samaroff, Ernest Bloch, Pablo Casals, Rosina Lhevinne, Lotte Lehmann, Ilona Kabos, Janos Starker, Christoph Eschenbach, Malcolm Frager, Jean-Phillpe Collard, Adele Marcus and Guido Agosti.
Two of his students, Elenor Barcsak and Kwei-Ling Pomerleau, have served as president of the Marin County Music Teachers Association, and another student, Donna Klein has written an acclaimed biography of America’s first native born famous female concert pianist, Olga Samaroff.
Allen Fuller is director of games at Harrah’s Club in Reno and he concertizes in the Nevada area and also in Germany.
www.sfsu.edu /~smd/bios/corbett-jones_w.html   (1315 words)

  
 An American Virtuoso On The World Stage: Olga Samaroff Stokowski; Author: Stokowski, Olga Samaroff; Author: Kline, ...
An American Virtuoso On The World Stage: Olga Samaroff Stokowski; Author: Stokowski, Olga Samaroff; Author: Kline, Donna S.; Hardcover
Author: Stokowski, Olga Samaroff; Author: Kline, Donna S. Hardcover
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