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Imelda Delgado earned a master’s degree in piano performance (1960) at Indiana University while studying with Sidney Foster. In addition, she was awarded the coveted Performer’s Certificate for her master’s piano recital. In 1973, the Ford Foundation awarded her a two-year graduate grant to earn her doctorate (1975) at Indiana University, again with her mentor, Sidney Foster.
Her solo and chamber music performances have been in the United States, England, Mexico, Switzerland, and Italy. She has held teaching positions at Del Mar College and Corpus Christi State University (currently Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi), the University of Vermont in Burlington, Stephens College in Columbia, MO, and a one-semester guest artist teaching post at Baylor University in Waco, TX.
Currently, she performs as pianist with the Camerata del Sol Trio. Her recordings are in collaboration with flutist David Aguilar and oboist Evelyn McCarty.
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
About The Author
In this collection, we learn how [Sidney Foster] played for the often strident Vengerova at the age of ten[.]...Foster composed now-lost works for a 1940s piano-flute-cello ensemble he performed in with Rene Le Roy and Janos Scholz, and was also a pioneer of prison concerts. He deserves celebration as an unusually thoughtful, innovative keyboard artist.
— International Piano Magazine
It is so wonderful to see such a warm book and so marvelously documented about one of the most unique virtuoso pianists I have ever known.
— Abbey Simon, internationally renowned concert pianist
A biography of Sidney Foster is long overdue. …a valuable contribution to the literature of musicians by gathering in one volume details of an interesting, contributing world-class pianist.
— Charles H. Webb, dean emeritus, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
… Foster….expanded and illuminated my musical thinking in such a way that it really provided the touchstone for all of my musical growth since.
— Carlisle Floyd, foremost librettist and opera composer
Sidney Foster, an outstanding musical mind and a pianist of supreme artistry, was not only a great pianist and teacher but a truly exceptional human.
— Thomas Mastroianni, former dean, Catholic University, and president of the American Liszt Society
Sidney Foster is one of the elect among concert pianists and musicians of our time.
— David Saperton, Curtis Institute of Music; artist, teacher, and concert pianist