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...Chopin for Reach. Now thoroughly recovered from his temporary paralysis, he has gone a long way toward outdoing Tatum. One of his particular fancies is to blend in phrases from a completely different piece-such as snatches of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata in the middle of My Funny Valentine. "I like to venture out," he says. "Like with Funny Valentine, it came to me that there was a similarity between those chords and Beethoven's. I ventured out. It worked...
...remains were taken from the Ethnographic Museum, reverently laid on an artillery caisson, and drawn by 138 young reserve officers in a procession that stretched for two miles. Behind a military band playing Chopin's Funeral March slowly marched 80,000 Turks, including the President, the Premier, every Cabinet minister, every parliamentary deputy, every provincial governor and every foreign diplomat. Many of the 7,000 marching Turkish soldiers wore their Korean war decorations. Ten generals and two admirals escorted the coffin, while another admiral guarded a velvet cushion which bore the Medal of Independence, the only decoration Ataturk ever...
...minor. Mr. Berman quickly informed his audience that it did not cone from the Well-tempered Clavier but was Liszt's arrangement of an organ work. The indicating this gave of Mr. Berman's inclinations in musical literature was accurate; Liszt figured in the first work of the program, Chopin composed the last and in between came Schumann, more Chopin, Debussy, and Rachmaninoff. From the Classical period there was only Mozart's Presto from the A-minor Sonata (K, 310). It is the climax of one of Mozart's most poignant works, but its position as an isolated movement beside...
...Berman possesses a temperament perfectly attuned to the unique expressive devices of the Romantic period. That his technique was adequate goes without question; and a technique "adequate" to the Chopin Andante Spianate and Grande Polonaise in E-Flat (Op.22) is already one so prodigious and accurate, that, after briefly marveling, we may look beyond and examine his strictly interpretive qualities. Of these I have only the slightest reservations: climaxes often arrive too abruptly, without the protracted preparation which alone can insure the unified sweep of a whole movement; while Mr. Berman achieves a power and fury in the climaxes which...
...have hailed their decision. In Carnegie Hall this week, an S.R.O. crowd met to hail some more. On stage stood ten Steinway concert grands, and to their keyboards came squads of concert pianists (among them: Alexander Brailowsky, Robert Casadesus) to crash out in triumphant unison The Star-Spangled Banner, Chopin's Polonaise in A Major, and The Stars and Stripes Forever. It was the most emphatic way anybody could think of to celebrate the zooth anniversary of the U.S. House of Steinway...