Word: chopines
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...upon a time respectable people like the Henry Adamses considered it beneath their dignity to speak to him, and Henry James, who knew him, dismissed him as a "tenth-rate cad." Nowadays his tomb in a Paris cemetery is said to draw more pilgrims than Balzac's or Chopin's. His name is as certain of immortality as that of Adams, James or the Venerable Bede...
...bought three riverboat banjos so he could switch from one to another when his ferocious strumming broke the strings. Drummer Bill Dart has fingers like crowbars, drums almost exclusively on wood blocks and a washboard. Pianist Wally Rose, a man with a solid beat, also plays Bach and Chopin...
Most of the royalties came from a two-record album of the pieces Iturbi played anonymously in the movie life of Chopin, A Song to Remember,* and Iturbi's record of Chopin's Polonaise in A Flat, which sold 800,000 copies...
Most of the evening is devoted to conversation (a handful of good Hecht & MacArthur cracks, a hunk of fancy chatter about psychiatry and art) and to pianoplaying. Twelve-year-old Jacqueline Horner plays Chopin and Mozart with precocious skill; but the concert by no means makes up for the claptrap...
...said, 'I played the first American performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto in 1934,' and Stalin said 'Good.' " Winston Churchill requested Missouri Waltz, and "fortunately, I knew the tune." At another dinner Truman turned the pages while List played Chopin. An hour of piano playing was all Churchill's ears could stand. List remembers the Prime Minister turning to Truman and growling: "Mr. President, why don't you go home? I can't stand this noise much longer...