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Instead she won an International Chopin Prize in 1932, the Beethoven Prize of Vienna in 1933. She was in bombed-out Warsaw when it fell. The Gestapo agent who found her in the city's ruins tried to persuade her to go to Berlin to play for the Nazis. She refused and was sent to jail...
...program, as a sop to Occidentals, a Chinese pianist played Chopin. By contrast, Chopin's music sounded anxious, hurried, and too full of sound...
Perry Como's Till the End of Time (a Tin Pan Alley rewrite of Chopin) was the biggest-selling single record of 1945 (more than 1,000,000 discs). Como versions of another Chopin tune, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, and Dig You Later ("A Hubba, Hubba, Hubba") which has sold over a million records, are on the current jukebox best-selling lists. Como sings them straighter than slow-drag Sinatra, but with somewhat less ease than The Groaner, Crosby. Says Como: "I can't explain the different techniques in Crosby, Sinatra and me, unless...
Vladimir Horowitz's new recording of three Chopin selections (DM-1034) contains not only examples of the most widely different Chopin moods, but equally valid illustrations of the best and worst in Horowitz...
...sidelight to an earlier Truman-Churchill meeting was disclosed last week. At Potsdam the President gave a dinner for Churchill and Joseph Stalin, arranged for Pianist Eugene List to present a Chopin recital. Winston Churchill listened glumly for an hour, then said: "Mr. President, why don't you go home? I can't stand this noise much longer, and we can't leave until you do." Recalling the incident, Harry Truman related: "But I was enjoying the music. And we kept Churchill on the hot seat another hour...