Word: chopines
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...With its new station, the Communist radio acquired new techniques: women announcers were replaced by men, musical interludes of native songs gave way to Chopin...
...School, but in his first ten years at it he netted only pretzel money from his 150 songs. He lived by playing the saxophone in Chinese restaurants and beer parlors. In 1945, after he had peddled and pushed Till the End of Time into a hit (with help from Chopin and Tunesmith Ted Mossman), he decided that he had the formula: "Writing the song is only 10% of it; the rest is purely business...
...magnificent Bach-Liszt A Minor Prelude and Fugue with the kind of unobtrusive ease and authority that lets an audience relax and forget there is a pianist onstage. In fact, Pianist Solomon even seemed to be enjoying the music himself. Everything else on his program-Scarlatti, Schumann, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy-had the same soaring quality, the same mastery of style, technical finish and complete naturalness of phrasing...
...waned. Miss Lillie, of course, improved. She has supplemented almost all of her routines with additional business, such as the swinging pearls in the Pittsburgh choral song (to watch her twirl them is worth the price of admission alone), and the Teutonic accents in the satire on the Hollywood-Chopin romances...
...Chopin: Preludes (Artur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor, 8 sides). This one deserves to join the great company of Rubinstein's Mazurka and Nocturne albums. Some of Chopin's best music, and some of Pianist Rubinstein's finest playing. Recording: excellent...