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Horowitz played with the late Julius Chajes and the Center Sym- phony Orchestra and has also appeared with violinist Misha Rachlevsky and flautist Shaul Ben Meir. Horowitz said she passionately loves chamber music and describes it, saying, "This is the highest form of music: Making music," she continues, "can be a very lonely thing, especially when you are a pianist. But making music with others, creating a beautiful thing . . . it makes you progress as an individual and as a performer. You learn from the others and you give to the others." What Horowitz has given us, as an outgrowth of her love for music, is the creation of the Lyric Chamber Ensemble, a group composed of performers from the DSO and talented in- structors and performers from area educational institutions. Horowitz asserts that the pur- pose of the group is to present high-quality, innovative pro- gramming featuring a wide variety of music.' The Lyric Chamber Ensemble has per- formed classical music, music from the 1920s,.pieces by Scott Joplin and even Cole Porter. "Every program," says Horowitz, who conducts the LCE and also performs, "is different, to attract new people and teach them not to be afraid of chamber music." She also enjoys planning commemora- tive programs, featuring the works of well known and less visible composers. Such a program, slated for March 1 at 3:30 p.m. at Or- chestra Hall, is the "Gershwin Gala," marking the 60th year since the death of George Ger- shwin. The concert will include Gershwin favorites, including Rhapsody in Blue for piano, highlights from Porgy and Bess, I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise and Our Love Is Here To Stay, to name a few. The artists performing for the "Gershwin Gala" are typical of most LCE programs: Michael Gurt, piano; the Brazeal De- nnard Chorale; the Lafayette String Quartette; Earnestine Nimmons, soprano; Horowitz and Marcy Chanteaux, duo- piano; and Sheri Nichols, chanteuse, with Richard Be- rent, piano. Formal training for the former Fedora Cohn began at age six and by the time she Fedora Horowitz turned 12 she had been recog- nized as a wunderkind, per- forming, at this - time, Mozart Concerto in D Minor with the Romanian Broadcasting Or- chestra. Horowitz was born in Yassy, a town in northern Romania which, she says, "had half a million population and half of them were Jewish." She de- scribes it as being a thriving intellectual and cultural cen- ter for Jews. Her father, Ar- nold Cohn, was a CPA by trade, but a gifted musician who played violin, and, according to Horowitz, possessed a magnifi- cent voice and who could sing opera like a professional. Horowitz remembers that he took her to the opera like some parents take their children to sporting events. Her mother played piano and music was, indeed, an integral part of her life. About this time, World War II had erupted and Horowitz's father was taken to a concen- tration camp. The rest of the family left Yassy, managing to survive by hiding, and after the war, grateful to be rejoined by their husband and father, settled in Bucharest. Horowitz tells of repeated attempts from 1950 on to make aliyah and vividly recalls the disappoint- ments that accompanied each government refusal. In Bucharest, Horowitz, attended a special school, a conservatory, where mornings were devoted to serious music study and general studies took place in the afternoon. When asked to estimate the number of hours she spent at the piano each week, Horowitz muses, "I had a Jewish teacher who I saw two hours a week for lessons, _but in between the teacher would call me to her house and give me an impromptu session. I always had to produce and be -prepared.'