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Also like his colleagues of the modern school. Pianist Kallao has a fondness for the classics. At the Embers, he slips in something by Chopin or Falla with such an unassuming air that it never seems out of place. He began to learn the classics when he was three. His father, himself a professional pianist, would sit beside him at the keyboard, playing a Beethoven sonata, one hand at a time, while little Alex's fingers followed an octave away. Perhaps because of his blindness, "I always improvised and made up little pieces." so when he began to listen...
...musical hero of Paris last week was a 27-year-old pianist from Long Branch, N.J. (pop. 23,000) named Julius Katchen. Two thousand filled the Theatre des Champs-Elysees to hear his program of Brahms, Schumann, Chopin and Liszt, cheered up four encores and, at the end, crowded around the stage shouting for more. Verdict of the serious-minded critic of Paris-Presse on the performance: "A miracle of faith and fervor...
Digging Deeper. Periodically Pianist Katchen returned to his homeland for a recital. "My technique," says Katchen. "caused many critics to classify me as strictly a virtuoso; a technician who is able to race brilliantly through Liszt Rhapsodies and Chopin Etudes." As recently as 1951, Manhattan critics felt that he had plenty of speed but not enough depth, and Julius returned to his Left Bank apartment in Paris and more Euro pean appearances...
...accompanied by the words of a single character, accentuates the pictorial emphasis of the film. Occasionally the striving for dramatic effect without dialogue leads to ludicrous exaggeration, as when the death of Miss Julie's mother is underscored by a black-bordered photograph, lighted candles, and the strains of Chopin's funeral march. Although the symbolism throughout the film is elementary, however, each scene has the careful composition of a painting. As a result, Miss Julie has a visual eloquence far more moving than the stilted themes of Strindberg's plot...
After he swings out of the Tiffany this week, Oscar will return to his family in Montreal. There he will spend four to seven hours a day practicing the classics. Why the classics? "I play Chopin because he gives you the reach. Scarlatti gives you the close fingering. Ravel and Debussy help you on those pretty, lush harmonics. Bach gives you the counterpoint...