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Puerto Rico's San Juan, went to the cathedral of San Juan Bautista, spent an hour listening to Chopin and Beethoven on the organ, sailed on for Manhattan...
...Yorkers who went to Town Hall Monday night thought for a moment that they were being fooled. Programs told them that they would hear a Bach Prelude, the Chromatic Fantasio and Fugue, Beethoven's Pathétique sonata, Mendelssohn's Rondo Capricioso, six Chopin pieces. On the stage was a grand piano with a man-sized keyboard and to play it there appeared a chubby little girl who, if she had not been so self-possessed, would have looked as if she had wandered there by mistake on the way home from a children's party...
...barely span an octave but they sounded chords which were rich and strong. Beethoven's Pathétique needed more sweep than she could give it. Once in the Bach her right hand was not quite sure what her left hand was doing. But in the Mendelssohn and Chopin her fingers traveled over the keys with such speed and accuracy that the audience rushed forward for the encores to see just how she did it. Few people noticed a bald, dark-skinned little man who sat half-hidden behind the Town Hall organ watching her play her encores with...
Edward Ballantine '07, professor of Music, will give a concert a 8 o'clock this evening in the Dunster House dining room. His program includes Brahms, Beethoven. Chopin, Bach, and Schubert...
...motive, then, prudence rather than tax-evasion? Elizabeth Rend Mitchell is not in the courtroom. A large matronly woman with two grown children, she cannot be made to testify against her husband, may not be called to testify for him. Long an amateur pianist she once orchestrated a Chopin Polonaise for a Philharmonic-Symphony Concert in Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium. In a Press interview two years ago she diffidently admitted that she and her friends were trying "to make music a part of life again...