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...sometimes faulty English was undoubtedly responsible for a quotation-"I'm not nationalistic enough to say Czech music is great music"-in your Feb. 20 article concerning...
...hide: his technique was clean; his style, unlike that of many another Mozart player, was neither cold, coy nor kittenish. At week's end, on his 38th birthday, he showed an audience in Hunter College's recital hall his fluency and force in other styles: Beethoven, Debussy, Czech Composer Jan Dussek, Stravinsky, and the poetic Schumann's C Major Fantasia, which he has made his own (and recorded for Columbia-TIME...
...That Nationalistic. "Ruda," a serious but sociable bachelor, is now on his way to becoming a U.S. citizen. He played at the Prague Music Festival in 1946; but since then the Communist government of Czechoslovakia has ousted him from the syndicate of Czech composers and he has not been back. One reason the Communists regard him coldly is his close tie with the Masaryk family: the late President Thomas Masaryk was young Ruda's friend and musical godfather...
Firkusny still remembers his national heritage, seldom fails to include at least one Czech composer on his recital programs. "I'm not nationalistic enough to say Czech music is great music," he says. "But there is much good music." Lately he has also played more than his share of contemporary American music...
Chicago audiences, for one, might see & hear a good deal more of Pianist Firkusny. His childhood friend is 35-year-old Czech Conductor Rafael Kubelik, the Chicago Symphony's new boss...