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...Rumanian-born Pianist Dinu Lipatti played for the last time in public, at the 1950 International Festival in Besangon, France. To keep the date, he overrode his doctor's and his wife's pleas not to play, was fortified with drugs. Close to fainting at the keyboard, he had to omit the last brief selection on the program, Chopin's Waltz No. 2 in A Flat. Now, in a 2-LP Angel album, record buyers can listen to that last amazing recital and sample the artistry that made Lipatti one of the finest pianists of the postwar...
...Spain, Trinidad, who said, "If you put the tools in front of the baby, the baby will walk up to the tools." One day daddy Holder went out and blew the rent money on a piano. Pretty soon Geoffrey's older brother, Boscoe, began to bang at the keyboard in the evenings, and Geoffrey copied him. When Boscoe developed a taste for painting and then for dancing, Geoffrey copied him again. Endowed with natural rhythm and a body as hard and flat as a cricket bat, Geoffrey left school in his early teens to join a native Trinidad dance...
...method of piano pedagogy more modern than Etude appeared in the magazine's wake. Chicago's educational TV channel, WTTW, last week introduced a program of weekly keyboard lessons. On the screen Pianist Carroll H. LeFavor leads two pupils up and down the scales. In 4,000 Illinois homes children follow LeFavor's fingering through the half-hour lessons. Most attractive feature of the lessons, to parents and neighbors: the home course, sold for $1 by a local instrument firm, includes a cardboard keyboard guaranteed to guard against resounding wrong notes...
...interest in turn has sent students burrowing through monastery attics, museums and castles in search of long-lost scores. One of the more esoteric recent finds has come from the Escolanía (music school) of Montserrat in Spain, where California-born Pianist Frederick Marvin unearthed a hoard of keyboard sonatas by Padre Antonio Soler, 18th century Spain's only great instrumental composer. Last week, in a recital at Manhattan's Town Hall, Pianist Marvin put a few samples of his find on display...
...Prevention of Cruelty to Children), later became one of the world's most highly praised and best-paid artists; in Los Angeles. A protégé of Composer Anton Rubinstein, he developed brilliant technique (though his hands were so stubby that he required a specially shortened keyboard), retired several years after his triumphant golden-jubilee concert tour...