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...Maestro was playing the piano when the telephone rang. He was so absorbed in the Beethoven concerto that he positively refused to recognize this foreign noise-but for me it was like trying to ignore a fire siren. Toscanini kept right on playing, and I was certainly going to continue as long as he did, but I could feel the pressure, the temperature rising. Any second, something had to explode...
...neighborhood movie. His records (Victor) have earned him well over $100,000 a year. Last week he wound up his latest U.S. tour with a concert in Miami which won the shouting approval of 2,300 fans. It was a typical Iturbi crowd-pleaser. After his first number, Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata ("a mechanical interpretation with some sweetness interpolated," said the Miami Herald), he noticed latecomers struggling for their seats. He promptly did a pantomime of launching into his second number, running his hands up & down the keyboard without touching the keys. The audience liked it so well that...
Continuous music for the next two weeks will be played in the following order: popular music, hillbilly, Spike Jones, ballads, Bach, Mozart, the Pre-Classics, Beethoven, the Romanticists, Strauss, Gilbert and Sullivan, and operatic works...
...schedule for next week includes the Baroque composers, followed by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven each for a period of six hours or more. Opera lovers can look forward to 48 consecutive hours of listening...
...Beethoven: Sonata in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2 (Byron Jam's, pianist; Victor, 2 sides LP). Young (22) Pianist Janis, protege of Vladimir Horowitz, speeds through this stormy sonata ("Tempest") with much 'of the diamond-hard brilliance of his mentor. Recording: good...