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...precise measure of silence. Finally, humming cheerfully to herself, she went back and played it up to tempo, pouring out the great music in a liquid cascade that, even in the lonely practice session, glowed with an inner radiance. Brazil's great but little-publicized Pianist Guiomar Novaë's, 59, was getting in shape to wind up her latest U.S. tour...
...Guiomar Novaë's began to understand it at four, when she played marches for her kindergarten class in São Paulo. By the time she was 14, and already well rounded in arts and languages, the Brazilian government had recognized her as a blazing prodigy, sent her to Paris, where she studied with the great Pedagogue Isidor Philipp. Back home in Brazil, her life was filled with many things besides her music: she married happily, and had a son and daughter; she took up the cause of woman's suffrage, helped out promising young musicians...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Soloist: Pianist Guiomar Novaes...
Beethoven: Concerto No. 4 (Guiomar Novaes, piano, with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Otto Klemperer conducting; Vox, 2 sides LP). Even those who prefer the old Schnabel versions will have to concede that Madame Novaes, a pianist in the same grand tradition, has something to say. Recording: somewhat harsh...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 1 p.m., CBS). Soloist: Pianist Guiomar Novae...