Word: claudio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell last week, Chilean-born Pianist Claudio Arrau set some kind of record: he played both of Johannes Brahms's monumental piano concertos, Nos. 1 & 2, the longest two in the standard piano repertoire, all on one program. The audience liked it fine, and so did the critics...
...Claudio Arrau (rhymes with allow), who does such things with authoritative aplomb, is a trim, dapper 43-year-old who looks like a fugitive from a Man of Distinction ad. He likes to wear maroon ties with matching handkerchief jutting out of his coat pocket. Along with Bohemian-born Rudolf Serkin, he is in the middle generation of top pianists, a step below such artistic and box office champions as Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Schnabel and Artur Rubinstein, and a step above such youngsters as Eugene List, William Kapell and Eugene Istomin. He is one of the most tireless of them...
...lines of the main actors came out with clearness, force, and elegance, (to use Barrett Wendell's trilogy of requirements for writing a phrase which is a nutshell still unrivalled). Beatrice was has bewitching a heroine as ever roadway has produced, and her startling line. "Kill Claudio," though everyone knew it was coming, gave a genuine theatre-thrill...
Robert E. Miller '48 as Benedick, and Henry P. Robbins '48 as Claudio have been assigned the leading roles; they will play opposite Miss Eustacia Purves, Radcliffe '48, as Beatrice, and Miss Claire Gilman, Radcliffe '48, as Hero. Robert Lubchansky '48 takes the role of Leonato and Robert Girvin '48 will play Dogberry...
Like Mozart, Claudio Arrau began as a child prodigy; like Sibelius, he has been financed by his country. When he was seven, the foresighted Chilean Government shipped him off to Berlin to study under the great Liszt disciple, Martin Krause, paid all his bills for ten years. Arrau still stands high with Chilean officialdom. He is a member of its diplomatic service, received leaves of absence for his concert tours, travels on a passport which gets him almost anywhere...