In the '70s, Martina Arroyo cancelled her appearance at a Carnegie Hall
anniversary gala because of illness, and Isaac Stern recruited Horowitz
and Rostropovich in a matter of hours for their first collaboration.
They had one rehearsal and then performed the Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata.
The event was recorded but I can't find the information on line. Help?

Incidentally, the concerts Rostropovich conducted with the SF Symphony
for the past two weeks will *not* be broadcast on KDFC - his contract
specified no recording of any kind.

And, Googling for "Rachmaninoff Horowitz Rostropovich," I came upon this
White House story, assuredly not associated with the current occupant:

 [Jimmy Carter on the "Mad About Music" radio program, with Gilbert Kaplan]

   "... one of the things that I wanted Horowitz to do when he came
   [to the White House] was to play Rachmaninoff because when I was
   a midshipmen in the Naval Academy my roommate was Robert Scott,
   and he was a classical pianist.  So we used to play Rachmaninoff's
   concertos.  We didn't have much money then either - I'm not
   trying to present a poverty picture but we only got $4.00 a month
   to spend, so we spent all our money on classical music and we
   would get Rachmaninoff's Concertos by Horowitz, by Rachmaninoff
   himself and by Rubinstein and compare their techniques and how
   to play it. So when Rachmaninoff was my choice, Horowitz agreed
   to play it.

   "When Mr. Horowitz came to the White House on Saturday afternoon
   to get ready, we had the East Room prepared with a platform
   there, he brought his own Steinway piano, but he thought the
   room was too harsh sounding. So I went upstairs myself, with my
   blue jeans on, as President of the United States, and brought
   down a oriental carpet and Horowitz and I placed that carpet at
   different places against the platform until he was satisfied
   that the resonance in the room suited him. But this is one of
   the high points of my life to sit there and hear Rachmaninoff's
   music played by Mr. Horowitz, who had in the past always refused
   to come to the White House [since a visit in 1931]."

Janos Gereben/SF
www.sfcv.org
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