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...usual, Pasternak begins with a pretty soprano (Kathryn Grayson) warbling an aria. An itinerant celebrity (Jose Iturbi) is beating the fake rosebushes for young opera stars. Tunneling into this setup is a manly young truck driver (Mario Lanza) who has just the bouncing good looks and tenor voice to team up with the soprano...
While the guests sipped & supped at ten round tables, Concert Pianist Jose Iturbi and Barriee Breeskin, one of Washington society's favorite orchestra leaders, took turns at the piano. After the last toast, the President strolled to the piano himself, rendered a competent Paderewski Minuet in G and a work of Chopin whose title escaped him. General George Marshall and Presidential Adviser John Steelman joined the three piano players for a friendly argument about music. "I'm nuts about Chopin," said the President...
Almost all her life, Amparo Iturbi has played second piano to her famous brother Jose. If they weren't rippling away together on the Mozart concerto for two pianos, Jose was usually on the podium, conducting while she pounded out the solo part. One of Jose's favorite cracks: "I am my sister's worst enemy...
...parents arrived in the U.S. ten years ago. As a conservatory student in his native Berlin, he learned about the old masters. In Los Angeles he heard a jazz record by famed Pianist Art Tatum and "went on a mad Tatum kick for four years." José Iturbi heard Andre playing boogie, got him to arrange the boogie pieces for his Holiday in Mexico. M-G-M signed Andre just after he graduated from high school, put him on studio chores- everything from playing the piano for rehearsals to "watching sink" (synchronizing the film with the soundtrack...
Miss MacDonald's voice sounds richer than ever; Senor Iturbi plays much better boogie than he used to; and a couple of the children are very nice. It should have made a pleasant, easy show, but it seems hardly worth all the trouble...