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...destroyed Andre Wasowski's nation, but it sent him on a concert tour which made him the most widely acclaimed young pianist in Europe. Last week Rome joined Vienna and Moscow in calling the gaunt, 25-year-old Polish pianist the greatest player of Chopin in modern times...
...Wasowski was known only in Lwow, where he took lessons from his piano-teaching mother and played solos with the Lwow Philharmonic Society. When the Russians entered Poland they heard his fiercely impassioned interpretations of Chopin, packed him off to play in Russia. In Kharkov he performed nine times in three days ("It got too much for my nerves but I must say, it improved me technically"). After 186 Russian concerts, he returned to Lwow and got there just a few days before the Germans...
...treasure chests were sneaked out of Poland under the noses of the Nazis in 1939 and sent to Canada by the Government. The 34 cases were crammed with antiques: jeweled goblets, original Chopin manuscripts, Poland's storied coronation sword, Szczerbiec. Their intrinsic value was in the millions, their historic value above price. In Canada they were carefully stored: 24 cases with the Redemptorist Fathers at the Shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupré, eight with the sisters of the Precious Blood convent in Ottawa, two in the vaults of the Bank of Montreal in Ottawa...
...Fischer is not the only pianist who is content to stay where he is. Alfred Cortot, well over seventy and in semi-retirement, gave a recital of the twenty-four precludes and twenty-four etudes of Chopin. During the Rencontres Internationales at Geneva in September, at which Europe's leading intellectuals met to try to bring some unity to the post-war's ideological tangle, Wilhelm Bachaus appeared to give a recital of Beethoven sonatas and another of piano quintets with the redoubtable French Lowenguth quartet...
Beware the Weak. Malaparte says he dined with German Governor General Hans Frank at his Warsaw palace, heard him extol German Kultur, play Chopin with delicacy, later that same night saw him use a live child for target practice while the women of the party giggled. Says Malaparte: "In no part of Europe had the Germans appeared to me so naked, so exposed as in Poland. In the course of my long war experience, the conviction had grown within me that...