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...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony, Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor. Soloist: 15-year-old Pianist Sylvia Zaremba. Conductor: Artur Rodzinski...
...Chopin: Piano Music (Maryla Jonas; Columbia, 6 sides). Neat, womanly interpretations of mazurkas, nocturnes and waltzes by a Polish artist who zoomed to the top in two recitals (TIME, April 8). Performance: good...
...movies, the jukeboxes and the radio had taken first the works of Tchaikovsky, then of Chopin, strung puerile words to them, given them everything from a boogie beat to a lush 150-piece orchestral overcoating. What had been most melodic in Tchaikovsky's Fifth be came the most banal, and no steady listen er of radio could hear the Romeo and Juliet overture without trying to banish Our Love from his mind...
Victor Records, remembering how Chopin sales boomed after A Song to Remember came out, released four Concerto versions at once, ranging from a "definitive" one by Artur Rubinstein and the NBC Symphony to a syrupy foxtrot by Freddy Martin, who also has Tchaikovsky's blood on his hands...
Fictionalized biography is at best a bastard literary form, at worst as silly and hoked-up as, say, U.S. cinema's recent contribution to the biography of Frederic Chopin, A Song to Remember. The American is a sober, workmanlike job, but it suffers from the acute schizophrenia common to all work of its kind. The biographical and historical detail limit its interest as story. The choice of facts and the touches of literary fancy work limit its value as biography. Novelist Fast knows facts when he sees them, treats them respectfully, arrays most of those relating to Altgeld...