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...first program, Salon Swing, Miss Crane put an obscure pianist, a vocal quintet, a small hot band-Negroes all. The pianist, light-fingered Kentuckian Herman Chittison, won fame in Europe during the past decade, leading bands and swinging Chopin and Schubert at the. keyboard. It took Louise Crane seven months to track him down in Manhattan. The five vocalists chose an appalling name for their collective debut: the Sophistichords. But they deftly turned English and European songs inside out, kidded the pants off the clown's teary air from Pagliacci. The band of the evening, John Kirby...
...have ever known, personally or by name." And Haydn was right. The Budapest Quartet plays this music with impeccable balance and finish. . . . Another accomplished artist, Robert Casadesus, plays Ravel's "Valses Nobles et Sentimentales" in a Columbia album. You will not find in these waltzes the fruity charm of Chopin's waltzes, or the lilt of Johann Strauss, but rather an astringent wryness that almost belies the adjectives in the title. . . Finally, there is the love music from Tristan and Isolde by Stokowski and the Youth Orchestra, on Columbia, one of the least tolerable productions this fallen master has turned...
...benefit of those who are interested, I repeat here Rachmaninoff's Sunday afternoon program (which, may I add, is a typical Rachmaninoff program in its popular glitter and lack of musicianly interest): Organ Prelude and Fugue, Bach; a Mendelssohn Rondo; a Chopin Nocturne and two Mazurkas; the Sonetto del Petraca and the Rhapsody No. 11 of Liszt, and Beethoven's Sonata Apparrionata, as well as several compositions of Rachmaninoff...
Lean, long-fingered Alexander Brailowsky, Russian Chopin virtuoso, stepped onto the stage of Barranquilla, Colombia's Municipal Theatre, acknowledged applause, then turned toward the piano. It wasn't there. The manager had forgotten. There was no concert...
When German dive bombers sent Poland's Government scurrying to safety in Rumania, Starzynski directed the defense of the capital. Over the radio, to the accompaniment of Chopin Polonaises, he gave the world a day-by-day account of the destruction of his city. To German demands for surrender, he defiantly announced: "We are fighting to death." When the Nazis entered the battered city, they found him at his desk, still defiant. He disappeared and Berlin hinted that he had committed suicide. Like many another suicide, he turned up in Dachau Concentration Camp. The Nazis reported that Starzynski...