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Boston and was also asked to go on tour with the Boston Pops that following winter. The tour would require Ruth to perform with the orchestra for a threemonth period, performing every night, and twice-a-day on Saturdays and Sundays. The gruelling schedule would require that she travel every day by bus between concert venues. Nervous about forsaking her teaching position at the College of Our Lady of Mercy, she sought the advice of Artur Rubinstein in Los Angeles. Rubinstein encouraged Ruth to pursue the Boston Pops invitation. The first year of touring Earl Wild and Ruth Slenczynska, 1999 led to three more years with the Boston Pops. During that period she gave more than 360 performances with the orchestra – a record number of appearances by one artist with an orchestra! In 1956 she performed the Chopin F Minor Concerto with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos at Carnegie Hall. Mitropoulos, who had conducted her appearance with the Minneapolis Orchestra when she was twelve, considered this 1956 engagement as the “discovery of a brilliant new artist on the threshold of a great career ahead.” He inscribed a photograph to her: “To a great pianist and musician.” In May of that year, some 35 million television viewers watched and listened with amazement as Ralph Edwards applied his unique “This Is Your Life” formula to Ruth Slenczynska’s stranger-than-fiction real life story. Six months later it was set forth again, when the “best-of” “This Is Your Life” was highlighted on Arlene Francis’ coast-to-coast NBC “Home Show.” Also in 1956, her profile, sculptured by famed Malvina Hoffman, was designated as the symbol of achievement for the 1956 Kimber Award in Instrumental Music of the San Francisco Foundation. Delta Omicron, the – 12 –
Ivory Classics recording team after Ruth Slenczynska recording sessions, October 1999. Edd Kolakowski, Ed Thompson, Ruth Slenczynska, Michael Rolland Davis and Earl Wild International Music Fraternity founded in 1909, elected her to national honorary membership, conferring the title to a “musician who has attained outstanding recognition in the field of music.” In 1958, on the evening of November 13th, she returned to Town Hall to celebrate her Silver Jubilee. That same year she crossed the country, playing in 56 cities, in 20 different states, with appearances with six major symphony orchestras. In 1961, when the San Francisco Symphony was celebrating its Golden Anniversary Season, she was invited to perform the Khachaturian piano concerto with the 25-year-old Seiji Ozawa conducting. She has performed more than 3000 recitals on both hemispheres and appeared with most of the world’s greatest orchestras. In 1984 she returned to New York’s Town Hall in celebration of over 50 years on the concert stage. The New York Times critic, John Rockwell wrote: “unlike too many machine-tooled young virtuosos today, Miss Slenczynska brought an appealing lyricism and musicality to her interpretations... her technique remains a commanding one.” Although in 1985 she returned to the far eastern countries of Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia and the first visits to China and New Zealand, performing 115 concerts, she has pared back her concert schedule as follows: “Every three years I play internationally – between fifty and sixty concerts. Every year I play between twenty-five and thirty concerts and workshops all over the United States.” Although Ms. Slenczynska tried to retire from concertizing and teaching a couple of years ago, she has been unable to do so because of the – 13 –
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