Word: casadesus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scarlatti: Eleven Sonatas (Robert Casadesus, pianist; Columbia, 6 sides). Domenico Scarlatti's sonatas, some of them uncommonly modern for his time (1685-1757), were what the word originally meant, pieces "to be sounded," dances, preludes, fugues, etc. Casadesus plays them fastidiously...
...second concert in the Hotel Vendome by the Flute Players Club will be held on Sunday afternoon. This chamber music group is offering a most intersting program in which Casadesus, the Fresh pianist, is to be soloist.SHAN-KAR Art of the Orient...
Repaired during the intermission, Piano No. 1 was wheeled forward and Casadesus undertook a Chopin ballad. Before he had got through 20 bars the pedal dropped off again. Pianist Casadesus leaped up, wrung his hands, sobbed, "I'm sorry," bolted backstage for the attendants. Only one attendant could be found, so Casadesus had to help him push back Piano No. 1, bring forward No. 2. While they were straining with No. 1, a leg fell off. Half hysterical, the pianist put it back on. He was about to sit down at the relief piano when an unidentified clergyman seized...
More than 3,000 music lovers packed the Municipal Auditorium, sat enthralled as Pianist Casadesus rippled through Scarlatti, were breathless as he began a Mozart sonata, suddenly winced when the piano's right pedal dropped off. Flinging his hands wide apart, Pianist Casadesus shrugged pathetically, ordered attendants to wheel the piano upstage, concluded the sonata on the house piano...
...Pianist Casadesus grimly returned. The audience roared with applause. He sat down, tore through Chopin and Ravel, wrestled till the last encore with the relief piano, which, propped up on a roller frame, struggled to roll out of his reach. Local critics were sure that St. Louis would never forget Casadesus, that Casadesus would never forget St. Louis...