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Like Fellow Pianist Artur Schnabel and many another performer, Robert Casadesus has an itch to prove to the world that he can write as well as read music. "Since 15," says he, "I am composing all the time. Everywhere-on trains, airplanes, boats." He has written three symphonies, three concertos and about 35 other compositions. The new piano concerto, 20 minutes long, was written during two summers in the Berkshires, and has already been played by Casadesus in Minneapolis and St. Louis...
...Chicago Symphony's conductor, Dr. Artur Rodzinski...
...Artur Schnabel never plays encores. In fact, ever since he turned 40, he says, "it is really my desire not to play in public at all." But last week, at 65, he gave two Manhattan audiences a tantalizing sample of the music he plays and loves best-the piano works of Beethoven, Schubert and Mozart-music which no other living pianist plays so well...
Prodigy Unexploited. Artur Schnabel has been a sakes-man ever since he was a boy prodigy in Austria ("I was never exploited. My parents were very good that way"). He took lessons for only seven years, still hates to practice and seldom does (says he: "I practice in my head"). His teacher, who was,a close friend of Brahms, took him along on several of Brahms's famed walks in the Vienna woods. Schnabel loves to debunk the pressagent story that Brahms discovered him at his first recital, and praised his genius: "I fully expect to read some...
Bartó:k: Violin Sonata No. 2-Roumanian Dances (Tossy Spivakovsky, violin; Artur Balsam, piano; Concert Hall Society, 6 sides). Bartok had just made his final break with musical orthodoxy when he wrote this sonata (1922). Violinist Spivakovsky is the man whose brilliant playing recently set San Francisco talking about Bartok's music (TIME, Jan. 26). Recording (on Vinylite): excellent...