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...CHOPIN Nocturnes followed, nos. 17 and 4. The former included many finely-shaped phrases--the enharmonic transition midway through the piece, for example. I objected only to the occasional blurring of the pulse by too much tempo rubato in sections containing extensively syncopated accompaniments. Nocturne 4 was treated with a delicate sense of balance; happily the contrasting con fuoco middle section was not overplayed...
...security reasons; P.F.L.P. Boss George Habash, who suffers from a heart condition, was forced to watch from an apartment balcony as the cortege passed. But representatives of all the guerrilla groups in Lebanon and Syria were on hand. A slow-stepping 24-piece commando band in camouflage uniforms wailed Chopin's Funeral March. Thousands of Palestinian refugees, in a half-mile-long procession, trailed the flower-smothered coffin and its gun-bearing honor guard to the fedayeen's "cemetery of martyrs...
...recital at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall with a Beethoven sonata at 7:50 p.m. By 8:20 he had flung himself into one of the fiercest challenges in the entire piano literature: both books of Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Paganini. He continued with Chopin's powerful Sonata in B Minor, another sonata by Scriabin, a wrist-cracking Etude for the Left Hand by Blumenfeld, and finally Stravinsky's Three Scenes from Petrouchka, a piece that bristles with so many notes that much of it is written on three and even four lines instead...
...eleven, he had memorized all 48 preludes and fugues of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and had played them in public. "I even had two flings at New York," he recalls: "Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour and the big Chopin competition of the Kosciuszko Foundation. I didn't play very well that day. They told me I had no technique and no promise and to go home...
...infused abolition and agitation for women's rights with her own "strange powers"; the anarchist Emma Goldman who pioneered the advocacy of birth control and tried to integrate Peter Kropotkin's emphasis on the community with Henrik Ibsen's emphasis on the strong, independent individual. Even the novelist Kate Chopin, though by no means a political agitator, transcended the school of local color in The Awakening, challenged the constraints of marriage and, profoundly questioned the "relationship for sensitive women between art, love, and fulfillment...