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Repaired during the intermission, Piano No. 1 was wheeled forward and Casadesus undertook a Chopin ballad. Before he had got through 20 bars the pedal dropped off again. Pianist Casadesus leaped up, wrung his hands, sobbed, "I'm sorry," bolted backstage for the attendants. Only one attendant could be found, so Casadesus had to help him push back Piano No. 1, bring forward No. 2. While they were straining with No. 1, a leg fell off. Half hysterical, the pianist put it back on. He was about to sit down at the relief piano when an unidentified clergyman seized...
...Boston Symphony is giving concerts in New York this week-end and Symphony Hall will be empty until Sunday afternoon when the very fine Polish pianist, Jan Smeterlin, is to give a Chopin recital. Mr. Smeterlin is probably the foremost living exponent of Chopin's works and his recitals are always marked by the best musical taste as well as by complete technical competence. His program includes the popular Fantasie Opus 49 and Sonata Opus 35 in B flat minor...
...such a project as his proposal to promote world peace through voice culture, since animosity arises when unpleasant tones are heard. Mr. Boguslawski likes to toy with the idea that he may be the 20th Century reincarnation of Poland's Frédéric François Chopin. Agile and talkative Moissaye Boguslawski's interest in maintaining circulation in his fingers has sound precedent among other pianists. Josef Hofmann and Paderewski dip theirs in hot water. Percy Grainger slaps his on his kneecaps. Only pianists' stimulant of which Pianist Boguslawski disapproves is whiskey. He drinks...
...acknowledgment of the applause, 24-year-old Alec Templeton, blind Briton, performed one of the tricks which many in the audience had primarily come to witness. He asked Conductor Sundstrom to name five notes, which he swiftly contrived into a theme with variations in the manner of Bach, Mozart, Chopin...
...played by Hal Kemp and his usually lively band, Brunswick's Gloomy Sunday wallows dismally along in E flat minor, the dirge effect enhanced by a pair of French horns, and ends with a coda apparently suggested by Chopin's Funeral March. Vocalist Bob Allen and other members of the Kemp band were notice ably affected while making the record, played 21 "masters" before turning out one good enough to record. Few who listened to the Kemp recording for Brunswick or Paul Whiteman's for Victor or Henry King's for Decca failed to confess that...