Word: chopin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Likes of Eva. "I like all music, concerts and operas-especially Chopin," said Eva later to a reporter, admitting that her Italian reception, despite the Communists, had been "enchanting." "I don't understand politics," she continued, her alabaster hands fluttering expressively, but "I am profoundly religious." The Pope had been "marvelous." "What saintliness!" said Eva Perón, her brown eyes rolling heavenward...
...first and most unabashed tune thieves, once told Movie-man Irving Thalberg, "When you buy me, you're buying Chopin, Liszt and Mozart. You're getting the very best." His most successful steal was Chasing Rainbows from Chopin's Fantasie-Impromptu. He got the title for Peg O' My Heart from the play (1912) starring Laurette Taylor, which had been a hit before Fisher borrowed its well-plugged name for his song. Fisher once sued Jerome Kern, accusing him of stealing the theme of his Kalula from the rumbling bass part of Dardanella. The jury awarded...
First organized in 1929, these open-air concerts have become a regular feature of the season. Selections will range from light works to heavy overtures, including popular Strauss waltzes, some of Chopin's better known works, and other classical music under the baton of conductor Arthur Fediler...
...explain with words what their music is trying to say. An exception was redhaired, articulate Hector Berlioz. He had been commissioned by the ministers of Louis-Philippe, the citizen-king, to commemorate the 1830 Revolution's tenth anniversary with a symphony. It was a proud era for France. Chopin, Liszt and George Sand reigned in the salons. Berlioz set out to do justice...
...setting classics to 4-4 jazz time and adding banal lyrics, Mossman has made more money rewriting masterpieces than the original composers did in writing them. His most successful swipe was Chopin's Polonaise in A Flat, which he turned into Till the End of Time. It was the best-selling jazz record of 1945.* Taking Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 apart, he extracted Ever and Forever from the first movement, and Full Moon and Empty Arms from the third. He rewrote the Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and called it Time Stands Still...