Lorin Hollander

August, 1970

It was at the age of 11, in 1956, that pianist Lorin Hollander made his Carnegie Hall debut and established himself as a Wunderkind of classical music. Thirteen years later, Hollander made history by playing Bach and Prokofiev on an electronic piano in a different musical mecca: Bill Graham's rock palace, the Fillmore East. This experimental venture grew out of the red-bearded virtuoso's conviction that the classics had been killed for his generation by the stultifying atmosphere of concert hall...