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Serge Prokofiev (the composer at the piano, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Piero Coppola; Angel). This new entry in Angel's "Great Recordings of the Century" series presents Prokofiev's own performance of his Third Concerto as he recorded it in London in 1932. Pianist Prokofiev sails through the familiar, exhilarating, gently ironic music with a rock-sure rhythmic stride, a springy touch and a tone that can melt or soar into green lyrical fancies...
...dropped their pistols on the way out; one was a .32 Smith & Wesson, the other a .38 Colt which originally had been sold in the Middle West in the 1930s. That was all anybody knew. The police were intensely curious as to why Al's bodyguard, one Anthony Coppola, was in a drugstore across the street when Al was ventilated. Anthony was just doing what his kind always does; he was having a cup of coffee...
...bridge beside Coppola stood a newly recruited ex-Kiel Canal pilot, Captain Helmut H. Wilters, taking copious notes. He was one of 50 to 60 volunteers from several countries being rush-trained to replace the departed pilots. Shiaty tutored him meticulously. When the Italian helmsman-changed every hour on account of the strain-just once failed to follow a command, Shiaty called to the mate: "Another helmsman...
...Happy, Captain?" At noon Coppola invited me to an enormous lunch of spaghetti, steak, and plenty of strong Neapolitan wine, and unburdened himself: "If the Egyptians have enough men like this pilot, they can easily run the canal." Shiaty was making his third full-length trip in five days. "It's really killing, this work, but we have to do it," he said, nibbling at a sandwich. "It's my country. Wouldn't you do the same?" I asked Wilters, the German, for his opinion. "I better not talk politics," he said...
...ship rounded the bend into Suez Harbor, elation broke out all over the bridge. Shiaty. beaming with pride, called: "You happy, Captain?" Said Coppola: "Ten hours! In the 30 years I've been going through the canal, this is the fastest transit. The last trip took 18 hours, and the French pilot had so much wine that we had to keep him awake with coffee. I'm glad they're gone, these foreigners." "We don't need them," said Shiaty. "They won't be back." Then he shook hands with the captain and headed down...