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Sonata and Chopin waltzes. As usual, she put on a good show by changing dresses three times (lilac for Liszt, black for Bach, green for Chopin). Her encore, Home, Sweet Home, had them stamping their feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Encore in Australia | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Philadelphia. Girard is not really a college at all, but the richest boarding school in the world (its endowment: $90 million). Harry Truman inspected everything, put away an enormous roast beef luncheon, accepted a pupil-fashioned bronze statuette of the Founder, listened to a 16-year-old pianist play Chopin, planted a pair of sapling twinoaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hum Sweet Hum | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...doorman was right. Manhattan concertgoers, to whom child prodigies were no novelty, were wild about Ervin Laszlo. His flashing performance of Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Debussy might have made any of his elders envious. Second-chair critics, who attend dozens of recitals a year and stoically put up with a lot of willing but perfunctory performers, found themselves using first-chair words of praise. "One searches his memory in vain," wrote the New York Times's Noel Straus, "for another so richly endowed with all of the factors that make for extraordinary and completely satisfying piano playing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Good Play | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Edward Ballantine, associate professor of Music, emeritus, will offer his annual Dunster House piano recital tonight at 7:45 o'clock in the Large Common Room. The concert will be open to all University members. Included on the program are selections by Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin, and Martinu...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News in Brief | 4/9/1948 | See Source »

...Introduced a "lost" Chopin cello concerto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time News Quiz: The Time News Quiz, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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