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Arthur Gold, (1917-1990) and '''Robert Fizdale''', (1920-1995) were an American Two-piano ensemble, authors and television cooking show hosts. Gold and Fizdale met during their student years at Juilliard. http://www.juilliard.edu/libraryarchives/peter.html accessed August 25, 2006. They formed a lifelong Gay partnership based around their common interests of music (forming one of the most important Piano duos of the 20th century), travel and cooking. TWO PIANO ENSEMBLE It has often been said that Gold and Fizdale revolutionized the art of performing as a two piano duo. While this may be a subjective statement, it must objectively be stated that they did commission and première many of the most important works for this ensemble in the second half of the 20th century, including works by , Virgil Thomson , Ned Rorem and many other important American Composers. They were fixtures in New York's artistic community, being friends with literary and cultural figures such as Truman Capote , James Schuyler , George Balanchine , Jerome Robbins , among others. In 1948, they were one of the wave of American artists, musicians and writers who took advantage of the first possibility since the end of World War II to freely travel in Europe. "The Boys", as they were called by their friends, http://www.turtlepoint.com/catalogue/corbett-thelettersofjamesschuyler.html accessed August 26, 2006 arrived in Paris with a letter of introduction from Marcelle De Manziarly to Germaine Tailleferre of Les Six who invited them to a lunch with Francis Poulenc and Georges Auric . This lunch ended with Auric and Tailleferre taking the score of Thomson's "The Mother of Us All", which Thomson had given as a gift, turning it upside down on the piano and having Poulenc singing all of the roles (including Susan B. Anthony ) in nonsense English syllables which were supposedly an imitation of Gertrude Stein 's Libretto while Tailleferre and Auric improvised a four-hands version of Thomson's score.Gold and Fitzdale (sic), Misia, the Life of Misia Sert , William Morrow 1981, cited in Georges Hacquard, "Germaine Tailleferre: la Dame des Six" (L'Harmattan 1997) pp143-144 After this memorable day, Tailleferre invited the couple to her home in Grasse to spend two months while she was writing her Ballet also wrote his own Sonata For Two Pianos for "the Boyz" (as he called them), a commission which was paid by their mutual friend the American Soprano and arts Patron Alice Swanson Esty , according to Poulenc's correspondence. The Duo also recorded a number of recordings featuring works by Les Six, Vittorio Rietti , and other composers, as well as a series of Concerto recordings with Leonard Bernstein and The New York Philharmonic , including the Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos, The Mozart Two Piano Concerto and Saens-Saint's "Carnaval of the Animals". LITERARY AND CULINARY CAREERS In the late 1970s, Arthur Gold began to have problems with his hands which made it difficult for him to perform, so the duo began to write biographical works, including "Misia: the Life of " (Knopf 1991). The Duo also began writing food articles for Vogue Magazine and began a television cooking show. In 1984 they published the Gold and Fizdale Cookbook (Random House 1984) which is dedicated to their friend George Balanchine , "In whose kitchen we spent many happy hours..." In 1996, after the death of Fizdale, his Estate donated the personal papers, recordings and other memorabilia to the Juilliard School, where they are kept in the school's Peter Jay Sharp Special Collections Room in the Juilliard Library http://www.juilliard.edu/libraryarchives/peter.html accessed August 25, 2006 WORKS WRITTEN FOR GOLD AND FIZDALE
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