Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Impounded. In Kalamazoo, Mich., ticketed for leaving her keys in the ignition when she parked her car, Mrs. Cleo O. Brocato demanded a trial because she had also left her watchdog in the front seat...
...that point, De Groot's friend, composer Juriaan Andriessen, announced that he was going to compose a piece for the left hand. As the news spread, other composers volunteered to do the same. Virtually every top Dutch composer is working on a piece for De Groot to be finished before February, in time for a new radio series. The new works will nearly triple the left-hand repertory...
...exhausts both the old and the new repertories, he sees an almost endless future in recording. Under the name "Guy Sherwood," for instance, he appears in a radio series on which he plays numbers such as Kitten on the Keys, for which he has deftly recorded first the left-hand part, then the right-hand part (played with the left hand). When the whole thing is glued together, De Groot sounds like his old two-handed self playing like sixty...
...Although some left-hand pieces are written as mere musical oddities, most are commissioned or written by handicapped pianists, e.g., Hungary's famed Geza Zichy (1849-1924), who lost his arm in a hunting accident, but developed into such a virtuoso that he played three-hand recitals with Liszt; Vienna-born Paul Wittgenstein, who lost an arm in World War I, and commissioned Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand, two works by Richard Strauss, Britten's Diversions on a Theme...
Severo Ochoa, 54, born in the Bay of Biscay town of Luarca, taught physiology at the University of Madrid until 1936. Then, with his family as sharply disrupted as his country by Franco's rebellion, Ochoa left to do research in Germany and England, came to the U.S. in 1940. After a year at St. Louis' Washington University, he joined Manhattan's New York University, intensified his research on enzymes, the catalysts of life. In 1946 he had a brilliant post-doctoral student, Arthur Kornberg. Within ten years Dr. Ochoa and colleagues found a way to make...