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Dame Myra Hess, Duo-Pianists Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson, Manhattan's Ray Lev are among Uncle Tobs's famed virtuosos. To plain people, the chief point of the elaborately philosophical Matthay principle (Matthayites hate the word method) is: no dry, mechanical finger drilling. Matthay-trained teachers are still a distinct minority among the 100,000 piano-marms of the U.S., but Matthay-like ideas are moving in. About one-third of the nation's 1,500,000 piano students are no longer subjected to those scramble-noted exercises composed by implacable Karl Czerny, who is widely...
...wildest rumor, soon exposed, claimed that Field Marshal von Brauchitsch had flown like a Hess to Ireland. But other rumors came in a persistent, persuasive flood from the listening posts of Europe...
...Myra Hess, British pianist now in London, has received 315 birthday greetings by mail since her birthday-last Feb. 25. Mutual friends conspired in a "chain-greeting" plot. Among the conspirators: Lord Halifax, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Thornton Wilder, Albert Einstein...
...What Hess wrote, in code, no Englishman knows. But within three weeks, Germany was at war for the first time with an enemy she had underestimated. Something of the value of Total Espionage may be measured between the greased-rail destruction of Western Europe, where it functioned perfectly, and the unpleasant surprise in the East, where it did by no means...
Riess's story on Hess is improbable enough. So is much else in his book. So, not long ago, was Hitler...