André Watts, a classical pianist who was catapulted to fame at 16 by his performances under the baton of Leonard Bernstein, died at his home in Bloomington, Ind. He was 77.
by Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, where Mr. Watts had joined the faculty in 2004. The cause was prostate cancer, said his wife, Joan Watts.
He was, by all accounts, a prodigy. After moving with his parents to Philadelphia, he auditioned for a youth concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra and was selected to perform — at age 10 — a Haydn concerto.At 16, he played for Bernstein, the music director of the New York Philharmonic, who was astounded by Mr. Watts’s talent and chose him to appear in an upcoming performance of the Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concert series.
Mr. Watts was a powerful presence onstage, swaying with the tides of the music, his face nearly grazing the piano keys, his foot sometimes stomping as if in involuntary motion. Some listeners found his outward presentation distracting. But admirers saw in it the mark of an artist swept away by his music.
When he was roughly 8, the family moved to Philadelphia. After his parents divorced, his was raised by his mother. They endured periods when he didn’t have enough money “even to buy pretzels casually,” he. He practiced on a piano that had 26 missing strings. To finance his lessons, his mother worked in an art gallery.
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