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...lost composition time. Rosemary laid in a supply of music paper and set to work copying down the carefully considered musical thoughts of history's greatest composers. "Liszt controls my hands for a few bars at a time, and then I write the music down," explains Mrs. Brown. "Chopin tells me the notes at the piano and pushes my hands onto the right keys; if it is a song, Schubert tries to sing it-but he hasn't got a very good voice. Beethoven and Bach prefer to have me seated at the table with pencil and paper...
...late at night, eat crackers and cheese, drink beer and watch on TV those old movies about composers! Cornel Wilde as Chopin murmuring sweet note-things to Merle Oberon as George Sand in A Song to Remember. How (munch) romantic! Dirk Bogarde as Liszt tirelessly flailing away at the old 88 in Song Without End. Good (crunch) show...
...virtuosity throughout the world, will perform in an afternoon concert with an esoteric selection of the work of Seriabin and Haydn. In an evening recital. Miss Artmenta Adams-whose recent New York debut brought rave reviews to the young Julliaird School pianist-will play the work of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Swanson, and Prakofiev...
...second offering of its premiere engagement in Los Angeles, the British National Theater performs with its usual eclat while somewhat scanting the poetic mood music of the play. Chekhov is not wholly Chekhovian without a certain hauntingly sad fragility, like a Chopin nocturne heard by moonlight. In the manner of his closest U.S. counterpart, Tennessee Williams, Chekhov is a poet of bruised hearts and defeated hopes, a laureate of losers...
Last year Choreographer Jerome Robbins enchanted critics and audiences with his brilliant Dances at a Gathering, based on a medley of Chopin music. The question then became: Could he top it? The answer, at the New York State Theater last week, was yes. And yes again. In the Night, a 16-minute sparkler incorporating four Chopin nocturnes, was a delight and had the audience roaring its approval. Pronounced the New York Times's Clive Barnes: "Tiny gems are often more difficult in programs than larger jewels-gems like these are able to make their own rules...