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Ray Lev
Ray Lev (May 8, 1912 – May 20, 1968) was an American classical pianist. One year after her birth in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, her father, a synagogue cantor, and mother, a concert singer, brought her to the United States.〔(Biographical sketch on Bach Cantatas Website, accessed August 11, 2008 )〕
==Life==
Lev’s early piano studies were with Waiter Ruel Cowles in New Haven, Connecticut and Gaston Déthier in New York.〔 She made her debut at age 17 in England performing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 under Sir Landon Ronald. After winning the American Matthay Prize and the Philharmonic Symphony Scholarship, she studied with Tobias Matthay in England from 1930 to 1933.〔(Biographical sketch at Naxos Website, accessed August 11, 2008) )〕 Thereafter, Lev returned to the United States, where she made her New York debut in 1934 with the National Orchestral Association. Her annual recitals in Carnegie Hall were generally sold out; she also toured successfully in Europe, the United States, and Canada and performed on radio network broadcasts. In one such Carnegie Hall recital, on November 10, 1944, Lev gave the first complete traversal ever presented in that venue of the Six Pieces, op. 118 of Johannes Brahms.〔(Program notes for Carnegie Hall recital of Murray Perahia, November 3, 2007, accessed May 18, 2009 )〕 Lev also was a champion of modern works. For instance, in November 1945, again at Carnegie Hall, she gave the premiere of Louise Talma's ''Alleluia in Form of a Toccata''〔(Walker-Hill, Helen, Notes to ''Music of Louise Talma'', Theresa Bogard, piano, CRI NWCR 833 (1999) )〕 and of 24-year-old Douglas Townsend's ''Sonatina No. 1'', which she repeated in a March 31, 1946 recital at New York Times Hall broadcast live over WNYC.〔(Entry for Townsend's ''Sonatina No. 1'' at American Music Center web site, accessed May 18, 2009 )〕 A November 1948 Carnegie Hall recital included the Hora movement from the 1937 ''Chassidic Suite'' of Jakob Schönberg.〔(The Jakob Schönberg Collection at the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary accessed May 18, 2009 )〕
Lev gave two command performances in London, England, performed for US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and earned seven citations for patriotic service by extensively performing for US and allied armed forces during World War II. In 1948, however, she took a step that would negate the benefits of these public-spirited activities and that effectively would put an end to the progress of her career: she joined 31 other American musicians, artists, and writers in signing an open letter of solidarity with twelve Russian writers who had called for fellow Communists to declare themselves publicly.〔("We Grip Your Hand," ''Time'', May 10, 1948 )〕 As a result, in 1950 she had the dubious distinction of being the sole classical pianist named in the ''Red Channels'' list of alleged communist sympathizers during the American Red Scare. (In between, in 1949, she had formed part of the Paul Robeson concert that ended in the Peekskill Riots.〔Cohen, Ronald D. (''Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940–1970'', p. 63. ) University of Massachusetts Press (Boston), 2002.〕) Little information about her appears thereafter, and her name is largely forgotten today, although one reference suggests that she continued playing throughout her remaining life, including nearly annual Carnegie Hall recitals, and performed the Schumann Piano Concerto in April 1968, a month before her death.〔(Women at the Piano web site, accessed May 20, 2009 )〕 Some support for the former claim can be found in the Fall 1958 ''Juilliard Review'', which indicates that on April 8 of that year she performed the premiere of ''Toccata for Piano'' by Juilliard alumnus Wallingford Riegger at Carnegie Hall.〔(''Juilliard Review'', Fall 1958 Alumni News, accessed May 18, 2009 )〕 Presumably, however, she became primarily a teacher; her students include Aki Takahashi〔(Biographical sketch from Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music appearing on enotes web site, accessed May 18, 2009 )〕 and the currently active American pianists Joel Sachs 〔NY Times January 18, 2015 "Heralding New Music and Nuturing It"〕 and Miriam Brickman.〔
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