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...Smeterlin, eminent Polish pianist, will present an all-Chopin program at Jordan Hall Sunday afternoon, December 5, at 3:30 o'clock. His choice of auditorium is a wise one, for the delicacy of Chopin's music can be much better appreciated in a small room than in the vastnesses of Symphony Hall...
...musicians, TIME suggests that the following bear out its generalization: When he was 4, Beethoven began studying music, knew as much as his teacher-father by the time he was 9. Other first appearances: Heifetz and Elman at 5, Mozart and Josef Hofmann at 6, Fritz Kreisler at 7, Chopin at 8, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Rubinstein, Harold Bauer at 9, Cesar Franck and Schumann...
...Delacroix was an established painter, a friend of Chopin, Baudelaire, George Sand, already engaged in the speculations and experiments with color and form which have made many critics consider him the father of all modern painting. Copious, passionate, acute, the entries are studded with keen sidelights on Paris society, on music, the theatre, politics and science as well...
...play it. George showed more musical zeal, soon became the family pianist. In those days you could get a teacher for 50?. George had two years of such instruction, never a good teacher until he met Charles Hambitzer. Hambitzer was a composer, ambitious to teach the boy all about Chopin, Liszt and DeBussy. Had he succeeded in sending young Gershwin abroad to study, the history of U. S. jazz might have been different...
...wrote a thesis on Milton's Knowledge of Music) advertises himself as "writer, broadcaster, lecturer, composer, arranger, general showman and entertainer." But he is best known as "The Tune Detective," points out in books and on the radio the similarity between I'm Always Chasing Rainbows and Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu, who can detect in Yes, We Have No Bananas elements of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean, I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls and Seeing Nellie Home...