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...bespectacled 22-year-old American out of White Plains, N.Y., who greatly resembles a tight end recently became the darling of countless Poles from Cracow to Lodz by doing something very dear to the Polish heart: playing Chopin with great power and feeling. His name is Garrick Ohlsson. At Warsaw during the three-week-long International Chopin Competition, he was awarded first prize over 80 other pianists. He is the first American ever to win the contest and the first young American pianist since Van Cliburn back in 1958 to become an overnight national hero behind the Iron Curtain...
Today international music contests are about as numerous-and as hard to tell apart-as Vivaldi concertos. The Chopin event, though, is exceptional because it is held only once every five years, so competitive standards are kept high. After his victory, Ohlsson embarked on a frantic twelve-day concert series in Poland, followed by a four-concert tour with the Philadelphia Orchestra. What he played, of course, was his victory piece: Chopin's Concerto in E Minor. At Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall, there were brief bubbles of superfluous agitation. But most of the time Ohlsson played Chopin with...
...Writing? Well, Andrew Stone has done it again with Song of Norway. Adapted by Stone from the highly successful 1944 Broadway operetta and filmed in Scandinavia and England at a cost of about $4,000,000, Song is a wildly romanticized biography of Edvard Grieg, once hailed as the "Chopin of the North." By comparison, The Sound of Music is not only trenchant social documentary but a symphonic tour de force...
...reached, and there is nothing she can say. It is a moment of passionate life-made all the more passionate by the aura of death that characterizes everything else in the film. But even so, the moment is brief; a minute later, Robert says, "So, I faked a little Chopin and you faked a little response." The walls are up again, and the characters go back to hitting their heads against them...
...restiveness was a background rumble. It is to Schell's credit that the scenario has been propelled forward 55 years-to the eve of the October Revolution-without losing its balance. Only in the choice of background music does the director lose track of the score, alternating from Chopin to a muted rock. Turgenev needs no varnish of "relevance." The story of First Love endures beyond fashion because, like all real art, it steps to the immutable rhythm of life...