MUSIC

Legendary concert pianist Vladimir Horowitz has turned over his memorabilia to Yale University, a collection that includes the only recordings ever made of his recitals at Carnegie Hall during the 1940s and 1950s. Harold Samuel, a music professor and librarian at Yale, has been negotiating with Horowitz to obtain the material for two years. The contact was made through a Yale alumnus who knows Horowitz’s wife, Wanda Toscanini-Horowitz. She said her husband chose the Ivy League university because it has “one of the great music schools” in the country, and that he enjoyed playing at Yale, where he was “stimulated by his young audiences.” Yet Horowitz, now 85, is also a Yalie; he’s an assistant fellow of Yale’s Silliman College.