|
Phone: 212-860-5541 * Fax: 917-677-8247
|
|
Price: $150.00 |
|
MINT CONDITION |
JESÚS MARÍA SANROMÁ - PIANIST |
|
Rare autographed 8” x 10” photograph of the Puerto Rican virtuoso pianist, Feb. 5, 1953. The pianist was brought to Boston at the age of 14 to study with Antoinette Szumowska at the New England Conservatory of Music. (She was a pupil of Michalowski and Paderewski) After winning the Mason and Hamlin Prize, he went to Paris to study with Alfed Cortot and then Berlin to study with Artur Schnabel. Sanromá had a double career, as both a solo virtuoso and as the house pianist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1926-1944. The pianist performed as soloist with orchestra, or in recital in over 3000 concerts during his career! While in Boston, he gave many World and American Premiers of Piano Concertos by 20th Century composers including, Grofé, Piston, Hindemith, Toch, Hill, Duke, Honegger, Ravel, Martinu and Stravinsky. He was particularly important in Boston as he was the musical advisor to Serge Koussevitsky and would play his own piano reductions from conductors scores, so the maestro could learn how to conduct each work. (Though a double bass virtuoso, it is well known that he needed extensive rehearsal before rehearsing an orchestra from a conductor’s score.) While Sanromá was an excellent modernist pianist, several of his finest recordings are of Liszt’s “Totentanz and the Gershwin Concerto in F.” (Surprisingly with Arthur Fielder and the Boston Pops!) The pianist returned to Puerto Rico in 1960 at the request of Pablo Casals to head the piano department at the Conservatory in San Juan. |
