Word: chopin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chopin: Sonata in B Minor, Op. 58 (Alexander Brailowsky. pianist; Victor: 6 sides). With the Beethoven and Schumann above, a top-notch addition to the list of recorded piano music...
...second concert," he later remarked, "was much better." But it was not until he had spent another night in the warehouse whipping up concertos by Rubinstein and Chopin that Pianist Paderewski became Manhattan's biggest show since P. T. Barnum's Museum...
...announcer's patent-leather voice was gliding over the air-waves. He spoke in a voice that was hushed with respect. "Music by Chopin . . arranged by Liszt . . . played by Paderewski!" And then the Master began to let his fingers ripple up and down the keyboard with a technique and tone that captivated the countless thousands of Harvard men tuned in at the moment. But many a listener heard at one time or another during the program a slowly increasing buzz. Was the immortal Paderewski executing a deft tremolo with the lower tones? Was the discord a modernistic tone-poem...
...Maria will quiet raging maniacs, claims Dr. Podolsky, and Beethoven's Egmont Overture has cheered many a victim of melancholia. A champion of pure music, Dr. Podolsky finds small medical virtue in swing, warns psychiatrists off Wagner "warhorses" and "severely intellectual modern music," urges them to add Chopin and Mozart to their musical pharmacopoeia...
...music collection to the Board of Visitors of the Music Department, Widener Library is opening an exhibition today of exceptionally rare and interesting manuscripts, dating from the Renaissance to the present. Forming the basis of the six-case display are a group of autographed holograph manuscripts of Beethoven, Chopin, Rubinstein, Betini, and Haydn...