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...genuinely glad to be back. He acted like a man without a worry. He had one day of seclusion with his family in the big, ornately corniced house of Mrs. David Wallace, his mother-in-law. He ate a big turkey dinner, entertained his family with a couple of Chopin Nocturnes on the baby grand. Almost the entire day before election he spent with his fellow Shriners in Kansas City...
...piano in such bad shape that half the keys stuck. At the Spanish court he had to struggle through a Beethoven sonata while twelve-year-old Alfonso XIII romped about him, and the Infanta Isabella chattered all the way through the piece ("How like Wagner . . . This reminds me of Chopin...
...months, gardeners had been nursing thousands of plants, arranged in West Princes Street Gardens, to spell out in brilliant flowers the names of Chopin, Mozart and Beethoven. On flag-festooned streets, shops were chock-full of tartans and souvenirs. And Edinburgh's crammed hotels had wangled enough extra rations of Scotch for more than a wee drap o' that for everyone...
...years. In Europe, Soulima is known as the foremost interpreter of his father's piano music-so much so that he has to beg impresarios to let him play something else. Says Soulima: "I say to them, 'I will play Stravinsky if I can also play some Chopin, Schumann or Mozart.' Now they...
What major pieces must New York's industrious concertgoers hear oftenest? Last week, the Herald Tribune's statistical-minded Music Editor Francis D. Perkins totted up his annual reckoning of what was played in concert halls during the season. For the second straight year, Chopin's Ballade in G Minor won the prize. In 225 piano recitals, it had been played, for better or worse, in more than one out of ten. Runner-up: Beethoven's "Appassionata" sonata...