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...recital program which Pianist José Iturbi played in Manhattan last week a composer with the prosaic name of Bennett kept company with Haydn, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt. Haydn and Schumann provided meaty sonatas for impish Iturbi to play in his neat, polished style. Chopin and Brahms showed him expertly romantic. Liszt exercised his strong, fleet fingers. But none of these great ones overshadowed the man named Bennett. He contributed four miniature studies, descriptions of sights he had seen in Paris. They were so vivid and neatly wrought that listeners could fairly see the children Bennett had seen playing behind...
Early last week a pretty, black-haired, 17-year-old girl from Vienna played a Chopin polonaise in the lounge of the S. S. Samaria to convince immigration officer, that she was qualified to enter the U. S. as an artist. News columns headlined the story but few people took account of it until a few days later when she made her formal U. S. concert debut in Manhattan's Town Hall. Then people who heard her went wild with enthusiasm. Poldi Mildner played at a terrific, breath-taking pace, with a force and authority which few women pianists...
...lectures and pamphlets Dr. Spaeth has explained his method, which anyone can learn, of separating a song into melody patterns, which may run from two notes to the whole chromatic scale. Some songs come piecemeal from the classics, like "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" which is found in Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu. Others are scrambled together like "Yes, We Have No Bananas," which contains bits from Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, "My Bonnie," "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls," "Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party" and "An Old-Fashioned Garden." As Tune Detective, Dr. Spaeth sings, plays...
...piano recital by Josef Alexander, including works from Bach, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Choloff, Mompou, and Delibes-Dohnanyl, will be given tonight in the Germanic Museum at 8 o'clock. Mr. Alexander has played in Boston with great success but this is his first appearance in Cambridge. The recital is open to the public...
...Chopin and the Rise of the Piano," Professor Hill, Music Building...