The New York music critics hailed this morning the piano playing of 14-year-old Daniel Barenboim, Israeli concert pianist who made his debut at Carnegie Hall last night. He played with the United Nations International Symphony, under the baton of Leopold Stokowski.
The New York Times music reviewer referred to his performance of Prokofieff’s Piano Concerto No. 1 as “exhilarating” and called his first appearance in New York a “distinct success.” The New York Herald Tribune’s critic asserted that young Barenooim is “quite clearly a prodigy” adding that he “sat at the keyboard with immense poise” and performed in such manner as to indicate “an enormous artistic potential that may at any moment become a reality.”
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