Happy birthday Horowitz! In this 1968 Carnegie Hall broadcast, he’s playing Carmen Variations, an arrangement he made in 1926 based on « Les tringles des sistres tintaient », an aria from Bizet’s opera Carmen, accompanied with a gypsy dance. It goes: « at this strange music the zingarellas leapt to their feet. Tambourines were keeping time and the frenzied guitars ground away under persistent hands, the same song, the same refrain. » And at the end: « Beneath the rhythm of the song, passionate,
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Happy birthday Horowitz! In this 1968 Carnegie Hall broadcast, he’s playing Carmen Variations, an arrangement he made in 1926 based on « Les tringles des sistres tintaient », an aria from Bizet’s opera Carmen, accompanied with a gypsy dance. It goes: « at this strange music the zingarellas leapt to their feet. Tambourines were keeping time and the frenzied guitars ground away under persistent hands, the same song, the same refrain. » And at the end: « Beneath the rhythm of the song, passionate,
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