Eugene List

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Eugene List (July 6, 1918 – March 1, 1985) was an American concert pianist and tutor.

Early life

Eugene List was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He spent his formative years in Los Angeles, where his father, Louis List (originally Lisnitzer) was a language tutor in the Los Angeles Unified School District and his mother, Rose, a pharmacist, was a pharmacist. Louis Lisnitzer had immigrated to the United States from Odessa, Ukraine, and settled in Philadelphia, where he met and married Rose, who had emigrated from the same area. Louis changed his name and the name of his family's relatives to "List" in 1937. The family was soon relocated to California.

Eugene, a young Eugene, studied with Julius V. Seyler, who shortly declared him a prodigy. His dazzling musical abilities were evident. In 1929, he appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Artur Rodzienski, performing Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto. Rodziski recommended that he study in Philadelphia with renowned teacher Olga Samaroff. She welcomed young List with a huge smile in 1932. List began studying at the Philadelphia Conservatory under Samaroff's tutelage, then transferring to Juilliard in New York a few years later.

List began and won Philadelphia's annual piano competition in his second year with Madam Samaroff (1934), giving him the opportunity to perform with Philadelphia's renowned orchestra. Though List had intended to perform the Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, he was faced with the most thrilling challenge of his career. Leopold Stokowski, a six-weeks away from appearing in the premiere of Piano Concerto No. 6, requested him to perform the premiere of Piano Concerto No. Dmitri Shostakovich said he had just received from the Soviet Union. List accepted the challenge and learned of the new concerto within the six-week time frame.

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Concert career

Eugene List's formal concert career began in December 1934 at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, at the age of 16. Despite being under intense strain, he put on a spectacular show and received rave reviews. He was named wunderkind and mature artist almost immediately. List's performance as the young American who survived Stokowski's battle earned him the title of a hero for the rest of his life. Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1 is the only pianist in America who knew Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1. 1, he has been invited to appear with major orchestras in the United States, including the New York Philharmonic under conductor Otto Klemperer. His celebrity spanned four continents, including Europe, South America, and Asia. He appeared with nearly all of the country's major orchestras, conductors, and premier chamber ensembles in the United States. The list's personality was known to be personable and unpretentious, which were rare in the performing concert world. Everyone loved him. Conductors, composers, colleagues, students, and even presidents praised his modest demeanour, his intelligence, and his quick wit.

List enlisted in the Army without waiting for his formal call-up in December 1941, insisting that he be allowed to finish the season because he had already committed to many concert dates. List, a 26-year-old boy, was sent by the Army to the New York Port of Embarkation, Brooklyn, where he was given a typist's position. Carroll Glenn, a well-known violinist, married him in 1943, in New York, whom he had met at Juilliard. Glenn was a prodigy, as her husband did. She had already won the prestigious Naumburg Competition, which gave her her a New York debut and aided in her illustrious career. Lists were soon transferred to the Special Services, a post he had coveted since his enlistment. He appeared in the New York area, where all of his funds went to the Army Emergency Relief Fund. He and other enlisted entertainers were sent to overseas in 1945. He was sent to Chatou, France, where he joined a group of GI artists, including Mickey Rooney, violinist Stuart Canin, modern dancer José Limón, Bobby Breen, and Josh Logan. Both Canin and List were later ordered to perform an orchestra. This was eventually the famous Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra. Canin and List were sent to Potsdam, Germany, where they were instructed to play for the President and his staff at the Potsdam Conference in June 1945. They soon learned that the occasion was to include President Harry S. Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill, as well as their large entourage at the Big Three Conference. Both musicians appeared for the President and the conference attendees for the next two weeks, with President Truman even turning the pages for List when he was invited to perform the Chopin Waltz in A-flat, Op. He did not have memorized the 42 subjects, a work he did not have memorized. Both musicians were shocked by the headlines in the newspapers and the celebrity that had been adored. Soon, the list was titled "the Potsdam Pianist." The President and Mrs. Carter's list would appear at the White House several times more times, the last in 1980.

List's post-war concert career flourished, including his appearance in the film The Bachelor's Daughter. Carroll Glenn and his partner, John Glenn, joined the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, in 1964. Both husband and wife would work in Rochester until 1975 before returning to New York, where Glenn taught violin at Queens College and the Manhattan School of Music. List joined the NYU faculty as a part-time educator and traveled by plane twice a month to teach at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. List, like his former teacher Olga Samaroff, taught his students how to express their own sound and interpretation as long as it was relevant to the composer's score and intention. He boosted their imagination and encouraged them to investigate the extensive piano repertoire. List also recorded the Carlos Chávez Concerto with the composer performing and recording American music. He recorded Shostakovich's two concertos in Russia in 1975, with Maxim, the composer's uncle, performing. The composer's music inspired his revival of the Monster Concerts, in which many pianos and pianists performed together on stage. The Monster Concerts at Eastman in 1970 were recreated on this website. They were televised on The Ed Sullivan Show, with ten pianos, nine student pianists, and a list. He maintained the Monster Concert project from the 1970s to the early 1980s, including a performance at UCLA in collaboration with Henri Temianka and some 36 pianists, as well as a 1980 appearance at Brooklyn College in collaboration with Agustin Anievas students. In 1980, he served on the jury of the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition.

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