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Singing Tone. They are never likely to cool off. They may wonder when he sits down at the piano, but they stay to pay homage to a singing tone, a clarity of expression and a restrained romanticism that weaves Chopin's Ballades into filigrees of fire, plumbs the mysteries of Beethoven, clarifies the passions of Prokofiev. Even the great Emil Gilels, a Muscovite who prefers to play by the Russian rules, agrees with the fans: "Ashkenazy is small, but the grand piano is not too big for him. He does what he wants with it. Others...
BILL EVANS, who usually stresses simplicity, has surrounded himself with strings for some improvisations on Bach, Chopin, Scriabin and Granados (Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra; Verve). It is best, and easy, to forget that Bach had anything to do with the gentle, romantic schmalz called Valse, but this and the other adaptations are pleasant displays of Evans' skilled, introspective and sometimes sentimental piano playing...
Weaver is a sybaritic, wholly citified man who loves Broadway plays, savors his stereophonic collection of Liszt and Chopin piano concertos, relishes Italian food (favorite is shrimp marinara), sips twelve-year-old bourbon when he works at home at night. He dresses in banker-conservative clothing, favors dark suits and dark Homburgs at the office, a plum-colored smoking jacket and black leather slippers at home. When he became HHFA director, Weaver promptly moved into an urban-renewed Washington apartment ("I wanted to put my money where my mouth was"), but within a year put his money into more luxurious...
...into a drawing room. In the corner was the piano, a Louis Quinze relic with thin little legs and lots of pictures on it. 'My mother. Queen Mary, arranged that,' the Duke said. I saw I couldn't do much with the piano, so I decided to play a Chopin Polonaise, invariably an effective piece for an unmusical person. When I struck the first big fortissimo chord, the entire piano collapsed at my feet. That was the end of the concert...
...likes to watch television (he knows the plots of all the soap operas) or go to the movies?any movie. He will practice scales in thirds under his hat while he watches the film, and in the taxi later, he will drum out the right-hand portion of a Chopin etude. Back at the hotel room, as Nela Rubinstein fiddles nervously with her gold necklace, her husband will warm up a bit at the piano...