An Intimate Portrait of Sidney Foster

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Foreword by Charles H. Webb
Preface by Imelda Delgado
Acknowledgements

I. Beginnings

Early Years
Composer
The Leventritt
After The Leventritt: The Leroy-Foster-Scholz Trio
Sidney Foster and Norman Dello Joio
Stages Where Sidney Foster Walked
Evolution of Programming
Orchestral Soloist

II. Foster's Pianism

Russian Roots, Russian Legacy
His Hands
His Piano Teachers
Where He Taught
The Pedagogue
Collaborator-Indiana University
The Concert Pianist and the Old World Scholar
Architect of Piano Performance Doctorate

III. Personals

John
Five Women in His Life
Anna Diamond Foster and Dorothy Foster Difazio
Mana-Zucca97
Isabelle Vengerova
Bronja
From The Grande Scale to Gourmet Dinners
A Little Potpourri

IV. Defining Performances

Memorial to Father (1937)
Concerto Highlights (1954)
From Fliere to Foster: To Russia with Love
(The Russian Tour 1964)
The Boston Première of Bartók's
Third Piano Concerto (April 1965)

V. Finale

1976: A Bicentennial and a Centennial
The Final Curtain
A Farewell Letter
February 7, 1977

Appendices

Appendix A. In His Own Words: Piano Workshop
Appendix B. The Students Speak
Appendix C. Cadenza for the First Movement of the Beethoven Third Piano Concerto (1941)

Index

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