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...Chopin's etudes provide a lamentable example. This set of 24 studies, taken as a whole, forms one of the great milestones in the history of music, yet the only American recording is a two-volume Columbia set which was entrusted to Edward Kilenyi, a young virtuoso who has proven himself utterly incapable of fulfilling such a responsibility...
Kilenyi's interpretation shows, in every measure, a consistent lack of either feeling for Romantic music or comprehension of Chopin's ideas. The energetic and heroic studies are methodically hammered at, and the brilliant or ethereal ones are transformed into specimens of picayune flippancy. To top it all off, he has used an edition which, in several cases, contains notes that are simply wrong...
...Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m. NBC). Chopin's Polonaise in A-Flat Major, Debussy's Clair de Lune, Grieg's Erotik and Concerto in A Minor (last movement). Guest: Pianist Artur Rubinstein...
...Likes of Eva. "I like all music, concerts and operas-especially Chopin," said Eva later to a reporter, admitting that her Italian reception, despite the Communists, had been "enchanting." "I don't understand politics," she continued, her alabaster hands fluttering expressively, but "I am profoundly religious." The Pope had been "marvelous." "What saintliness!" said Eva Perón, her brown eyes rolling heavenward...
...first and most unabashed tune thieves, once told Movie-man Irving Thalberg, "When you buy me, you're buying Chopin, Liszt and Mozart. You're getting the very best." His most successful steal was Chasing Rainbows from Chopin's Fantasie-Impromptu. He got the title for Peg O' My Heart from the play (1912) starring Laurette Taylor, which had been a hit before Fisher borrowed its well-plugged name for his song. Fisher once sued Jerome Kern, accusing him of stealing the theme of his Kalula from the rumbling bass part of Dardanella. The jury awarded...