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Ruth Laredo dies at 67.(pianists)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Ruth Laredo, a pianist known for her recordings of Scriabin and Rachmaninoff, died May 25 at her apartment in New York. She was 67.
Laredo played her last concert on May 6 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of a series she had given for 17 years at the Met called "Concerts With Commentary," in which Laredo played and spoke about music. The series had become an important part of the New York concert scene, where she was a frequent presence.
When she was first on the rise, in the 1970s, Laredo was a relative rarity as a female piano soloist, particularly in the technically demanding and muscular works of Rachmaninoff. There were only a few others--Gina Bachauer, Myra Hess and later Alicia de Larrocha, for example.
Born Ruth Meckler in Detroit on November 20, 1937, she attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she studied with Rudolf Serkin. She graduated in 1960 and that same year married the violinist Jaime Laredo, with whom she ...
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