Vintage Vladimir Horowitz Home Movie

This 1928 1929 home movie was fillmed in Cincinnati, Ohio at the home of Dr. Karol Liszniewski, my late father s (pianist David Edward Smith s) music teacher. Horowitz made his debut in New York in 1928 and then came to Cincinnati for a concert with the symphony and this home movie was filmed at a party after the concert. In 1944, music critic J. Harold Harder, writing for the Toldeo Blade newspaper (April 17, 1944) after a concert by my father, (who was then 19 years old) said : The