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...learnt it all from Fats Waller." The point about this whole business is that Fats just can't get hep to this modern school of frill pianists. Most guys playing today play a lot of very fast and fancy right hand work, leaving the rhythm and the chord changes of the left hand to the bass and guitar...
...musical novel called Maurice Guest opened (pianissimo) Henry Handel Richardson's career in 1908. Richardson's next book, The Getting of Wisdom (1910), struck a chord that made listeners sit up: how did this man get to know so many intimacies of life in an Australian girls' college? When, in 1929, the same author's Ultima Thule packed them in to standing room, the audience insisted on the virtuoso's taking a bow. To their surprise, the bow turned out to be a curtsy...
...friend, Colonel House, he prevailed upon President Wilson to include an independent Poland in his proposals for European peace. When, at the end of the War, the Allies asked Paderewski to organize a stable Polish government, the pianist took up politics in earnest. In a vote like a crashing chord the Polish Parliament voted their confidence in him as their first Premier. On June 28, 1919, at Versailles, he got Poland back its official place on the map of Europe...
...successful in insuring peace in that country!" Ace London Cartoonist David Low went to town on the angelic chord...
...March, "Pomp and Circumstance"Elgar *First Movement (Allegro moderato) "Unfinished" Symphony Schubert *Song to the Evening Star, "Tannhauser" Wagner *"Finlandia," Symphonic Poem Sibelius *Waltz Scene from "Faust" Gounod *The Lost Chord Trumpet solo: Roger Voisin Sullivan *Ouverture Solennelle "1812" Tchaikovsky *"Tales from the Vienna Woods," Waltzes Strauss *Hora Staccato (Roumanian) Dinicu-Heifetz *Procession of the Sardar, from the "Caucasian Sketches" Ippolitov-Ivanov *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...