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...Goldovsky, who came to the United States in 1930, was born in Moscow, Russia. Most of his musical training was received in Europe, where he studied piano under Leonid Kreutzer, Arthur Schnabel, and Ernest Dohnanyi. He graduated from the Liszt Academy of Music, in Budapest, where he studied composition with Leo Weiner...
...days life for St. Petersburg's upper crust was a wild melee of tempestuous music and passionate romance. From these Director Dreville has compounded "Kreutzer Sonata." As in Tolstoy's story the characters are carefree debauchees who tinkle champagne glasses to Beethoven's music. Thus Jean Yonnel, as Dimitri Pozdnycheff the irrestible rake, makes eyes at his creditor's wife while that gentleman removes the furniture, and reforms by going home to make love to the country lasses. American tabloid readers can fill in the rest of the plot: true love, questioned virtue, and a scheming horse-faced violinist...
Many of the little tricks of the French movies, photomontage and queer camera angles, have been abandoned by Hollywood. But there is something refreshing in a technique which plays romantic drama against a landscape of dreams and by emphasizing facial close-ups rather than sweeping panoramas, "Kreutzer Sonata" makes simplicity a virtue. March of Time's famous study of American Youth and a backstage view of the Paris Ballet complete the program...
...hear for themselves before they would believe that she had half the talent of her idolized brother. The youthful pair chose a program which would have taxed most grown-up musicians. They played Mozart's A Major Sonata (No. 42), Schumann's D Minor, Beethoven's Kreutzer. Hephzibah, a husky tow-head like Yehudi, wore a long peach-colored dress that did not advertise her youth. She walked straight to the piano, bent over the keyboard, never raised her eyes to the audience...
...piano and violin which most musicians either neglect or use to exhibit their individual virtuosity. Last week Manhattan's Town Hall filled quickly and completely to hear the team play Brahms's A Major Sonata, Mozart's B Flat Sonata, and Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata (socalled because Beethoven dedicated it to Rodolphe Kreutzer, a French violinist who never took the trouble to play it). Throughout the program the two submerged their personalities to make music that was perfectly balanced, completely eloquent in itself...