Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year before his first concert tour of the U.S., he took a summer off to work out the Chopin cycle. In a cottage in the French Alps Brailowsky card-catalogued all of Chopin's piano pieces. For months he played a new game of solitaire, juggling the Chopin cards into six well-balanced programs. Said he: "To play them in chronological order would have been a stupid idea. Often I spent hours trying to decide if a certain etude should go before a mazurka or after...
...late, great friend Sergei Rachmaninoff. Brailowsky likes to think that he plays with the igth Century delicacy Chopin himself used. Says he: "The Polish and the Russian, we understand each other." But Chopin is not Brailowsky's favorite composer; Beethoven and Mozart come first. A typical Brailowsky concert runs from Bach or Scarlatti to Prokofiev-but always includes some Chopin. In Buenos Aires he played 17 recitals in eight weeks without repeating any work...
...Brailowsky is in the top ten of pianists but ranks below masters like Artur Rubinstein and Vladimir Horowitz both in prestige and at the box office. But in South America he outdraws them all, and Latin women bombard him with flowers and kisses. Tickets for a Brailowsky concert bring black-market prices. Says Brailowsky: "There is the line like you saw here for nylon stockings...
Tomorrow afternoon the musicians will travel 20 miles by bus and car to the Tedesco Country Club at Swampscott to present a concert with numbers ranging from Beethoven's Second Symphony to a homoruos Shostakovitch polka...
Attempting to develop his organization into a "concert band." Malcolm H. Holmes '28, dean of the New England Conservatory of Music and a band associate since his undergraduate days, plans to add well known classical scores to its repertoire. The "Orpheus Overture," Rossint's "William Tell Overture," and possibly Bach's difficult "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" will see production...