Word: concert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Toscanini, and another nothing-but-Brahms concert...
Without a glance at the audience, the stocky little pianist padded straight to the concert grand in the center of the stage. He sat down, arranged his tails, struck a softly impatient chord. When the chatter and applause diminished to a cathedral quiet, he began to play. People in the front rows heard him snort and grunt over sforzandos, in rollicking passages saw his blue eyes twinkle like Santa Claus's. When his program was over, he nodded his big, square head appreciatively, and trundled off stage...
...nearly 30 years ago, and is now a U.S. citizen. But he still likes to go back to Europe every year, to visit old friends, and to hike in the Swiss Alps. He wears his fame lightly: he seems much prouder of his two sons (Karl Ulrich is a concert pianist who sometimes appears in joint recitals with his father; Stefan a Broadway and Hollywood actor). And he is much more anxious to be praised as Composer Schnabel...
...Boston Symphony (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Brahms again, in this third full concert in four days; conducted by Serge Koussevitzky. (This is not Brahms Week,* the German composer's centenary, or anything special-just a coincidence in programming...
Bristling Rhythms. But in concert, even Boston's dowager matinee audience found Ives's music frequently lyrical, bristlingly individual and tartly humorous...