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Because Frederic François Chopin was ethereally pale and consumptive, because his music has always had a romantic appeal for ladies, the tendency has been for many a layman to regard him as a little man of music, a sentimentalist whose place is in the parlor. Chopin acquires great stature when played by great musicians. An unreserved admirer is British Pianist William Murdoch who this week tells Chopin's story in a good detailed biography.* Many a writer has made Chopin seem doomed from boyhood. According to Pianist Murdoch, his early days were easy compared to those...
...oboe-players against congestion in the head. She sounded A. The other players took the pitch. Conductor Brico appeared in a severe black jacket, bobbed her bushy head and the concert was off. The strings played soundly and vigorously through Beethoven's Egmont Overture, his Second Symphony, a Chopin concerto in which Pianist Sigismund Stojowski. once Brico's teacher, soloed academically. Brico conducted with force but not affectation. The strings were rarely delicate but they caught her determination. The trumpets were strident, too, but knew their notes. Only the French horns soured continuously. The women who played them...
...Smeterlin, Polish pianist, is to give a recital at Jordan Hall on Friday, February first; his program consists of selections from Schubert, Chopin, and Liszt. Mischa Elman, noted violinist, will give a recital at Symphony Hall on February seventeenth...
...program to be played by Professor Ballantine contains the following numbers: Sonata, Opus 109, by Beethoven; Gigue in G, by Bach; Romance, by Brahms; Cappricio, by Brahms; Impromptu in G. Flat, by Chopin; Rumanian Christmas Songs, by Bartok; and Goldfish, by Debussy...
Musically the first part of the 19th Century was an age of virtuosity. Berlioz, writing for the orchestra, mysteriously made instruments sound as they had never sounded before. And not even Rubinstein ever played the piano like Franz Liszt. When Chopin heard Liszt he wrote: "I wish I could steal from him the way to play my own etudes...