Seymour Lipkin: Eminent pianist and conductor

When Seymour Lipkin auditioned at the Curtis Institute of Music in 1938, he said to his mother (as quoted in the Detroit Free Press): "This looks like a place you'd want to work in." Work he did - first as a student for nearly a decade, and later as a professor for more than 45 years. Mr. Lipkin, 88, an eminent pianist and conductor, died Monday, Nov. 16, at Blue Hill Memorial Hospital in Maine. Born in Detroit in 1927, Mr. Lipkin was sent to Philadelphia by his family to study piano at Curtis with David Saperton, Rudolf Serkin, and Mieczyslaw Horszowski. He...