{"id":22624,"date":"2023-02-21T15:09:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T20:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22624"},"modified":"2023-02-21T15:09:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T20:09:44","slug":"mr-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/mr-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. H"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23f0f0f0&amp;d=fm23_final_flipbook_02.10.2023&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=20&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p3\"><b>Vladimir Horowitz got his groove back on Lake Kezar. <\/b><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p4\"><b>By Colin W. Sargent<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Fireside stories color our lakes like drifting pre-dawn mists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\">Vladimir Horowitz, by many accounts the greatest pianist since Liszt, came in secret to Quisisana Resort on Lake Kezar in Lovell for nearly a month during his self-imposed 12 years of silence. He and his Steinway occupied a rustic cottage named Quartet (three bedrooms and a parlor for his piano shipped from New York\u2014or Boston, according to some reports) where he could hear himself think. The whole operation was so undercover that his biographer Glenn Plaskin (<em>Horowitz<\/em>, William Morrow, $29.95), a classically trained pianist himself, is surprised to learn this. \u201cHonestly, I have no idea that Horowitz visited the state of Maine in 1962.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Mr-H.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Mr-H.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Mr-H-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Mr-H-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Mr-H-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Mr-H-620x325.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Horowitz got his groove back on Lake Kezar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1272],"class_list":["post-22624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-february-march-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22627,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22624\/revisions\/22627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}