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...There, with practically no advance ballyhoo, a slight, dark-eyed, French-Canadian nine-year-old named André Mathieu hurried onto the stage, bowed stiffly, and pounced upon the keyboard of a huge concert grand. The audience applauded with delight at his precociously efficient playing of piano pieces by Chopin, Debussy and Ravel, but what left them wide-eyed with wonder was his musicianly performance of 14 of his own complicated and expert compositions, some of them written when he was only four. None of them was childish. Some, with descriptive titles like Procession d'Eléphants...
Krupa can ride for a long time on his copy of Ellington's "Hodge Podge." It's a magnificent record....Eddle Duchin (Columbia) has recorded his theme, the Chopin "Nocturne" and strangely enough, it makes quite an acceptable record....Jan Savitt's been turning out pop tunes, but they're excellent renditions and been watching. Total output of Woody Herman, Charlie Barnet, and Harry James has been nil lately, mainly due to overplaying. Woody has one coming out this week called "Blues On Parade" that ought to be pretty good, however...
...Chopin: Mazurkas, Volume I (Arthur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor: 10 sides). Twenty of Chopin's 41 Mazurkas (more to follow in Volume 2) carefully tooled by a leading Chopin specialist...
...Chopin: Waltzes (Edward Kilenyi; Columbia: 10 sides). Pianist Kilenyi makes all 14 of Chopin's familiar waltzes glitter like cut steel...
Authors Brockway & Weinstock's fluently expressed prejudices will give a jolt or two to dyed-in-tradition music-lovers. For them Chopin is "the most truly original of all composers"; bob-haired, ecclesiastic Liszt "the most tremendous musical failure of the 19th Century." Biggest jolt: a cool reference to sentimental Melodist Tschaikowsky as "the greatest symphonist of the 19th Century-after Beethoven." Of such critical jabs, close-collaborating Authors Brockway & Weinstock say simply: "If they start a controversy . . . so much the better. We think the future will bear them...