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...Preludes and his Children's Corner Suite; Saint-Saëns, Faure, Grieg, Scriabin, Falla, Granados, Richard Strauss and Mahler performing their own compositions on the piano. There were kings of the keyboard-DePachmann, Leschetizky, Busoni, D'Albert and famed Conductor-Pianist Arthur Nikisch -playing Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, and their own works...
...waters of the Gulf of Mexico. He went for a dip again on St. Patrick's Day-wearing green trunks. That evening he got out a big batch of phonograph records, gave his staff a canned concert of piano selections-such pieces as the Blue Danube and a Chopin Polonaise...
...German army had also headed for Czechoslovakia. Firkusny went to Paris, forgot his successes as a onetime child prodigy, and began to grow up. Through the war he worked and played in benefits for the Czech government-in-exile. In 1941 Manhattan concertgoers heard him again, playing Chopin with the poise and maturity of a master...
While at Andover Academy, Ponte was awarded the Milton Collier prize for piano. At Harvard, Ponte is taking courses under Randall Thompson, professor of Music. Selections from Bach, Schubert, Franck, Chopin, Debussy and Bartok will be included in Ponte's program this afternoon...
Last week Kenny Wolf got what he wanted. In Chicago's Kimball Hall an audience of 475 heard him work his way confidently and competently through a stiff program of Bach, Schubert, Brahms and Chopin, applauded him roundly when he finished a complicated, explosive Toccata and a pleasant Andante he had written himself. The judgment of the critics, as Seymour Raven of the Chicago Tribune summed it up: "Mr. Wolf has analyzed his music and taken a firm interpretative view of much of it. Yet he often fails where one would expect a boy to falter when wearing...