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...walls could speak, the manor house of Nohant in the French province of Berry would be a Niagara of sound. Chopin and Liszt set their music echoing through it; Flaubert and the younger Dumas produced puppet plays (music by Chopin) on its floor. Delacroix painted in Nohant's garden studio, and such famous guests as Balzac, Theophile Gautier and Alfred de Vigny argued and tittle-tattled in its drawing room. In the middle years of the 19th century, Nohant's halls, echoed to the thump of packed bags as estranged lovers and mistresses stormed down them...
...Walking Graveyard. "What it all comes to," said Balzac in his brusque way, "is that she is a man: all the more so since she wants to be one." Pianist Chopin agreed. "How antipathetic this Sand woman is!" he complained after meeting her. "Is she really a woman at all?" Soon after, he wrote in his diary: "She gazed deep into my eyes while I played . . . My heart was captured! . . . She loves...
...left with her for Majorca, "fresh as a rose and rosy as a turnip." He returned spitting blood and within an ace of death. Chopin lived on & off at Nohant for seven productive years-but not as George's lover. Instead, she nursed him like an ailing child, firmly denied him any closer relationship...
...music lovers, the long-play record has produced a top bonanza. New titles are being issued at ten times the rate they were on 78-r.p.m. disks. The new records also seem to deserve credit for broadening tastes. Where Chopin's Polonaise and the Boston Pops recording of Jalousie were bestsellers among "classical" records in 1947, last year's favorites were Beethoven's monumental Ninth Symphony (conducted by Arturo Toscanini) and a much more esoteric score, Berlioz' symphonic scenes, Harold in Italy. Last week Billboard's music sleuths found the public foraging still farther afield...
Leading nature hikes at summer camps helped Kinsey to pay his way through Maine's Bowdoin College, where he majored in biology and zoology. He had studied the piano since he was five, and at the Zeta Psi fraternity house he loved to play Beethoven or Chopin with tumultuous Paderewski-like tossing of his blond mane...