Word: liszt
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...begins chanting "Tvist! Tvist!" The bands quickly oblige. In less than two months, German record companies have spun out 300,000 twist disks, hope to triple their sales in six months. Of 100 different twist tunes, none on the market is more popular than a weirdie called Liebestraum von Liszt Twist, which is selling nearly 30,000 platters a week. Sample lyrics...
...Liebestraum von Liszt...
...Liebestraum von Liszt-als twist...
...Bernstein, 43, won bravos from 800 guests by re-creating a work he had played when he was 13 at his piano debut at Boston's Temple Mishkan Tefila. "At the time," recalled the protean composer conductor, "I played variations of the song in the manner of Chopin, Liszt and Gershwin. Now I will play it in the manner of Bernstein." Then, as a proud Samuel Bernstein ("You don't expect your child to be a Moses, a Maimonides, a Leonard Bernstein") listened misty-eyed, Lenny launched into his own expanded version of a fragment of Jewish liturgical...
...hand and listen to Tchaikovsky"; with a gusto born of love, he has been clutching the hand of the public ever since. And although he has long since banished Tchaikovsky from his valise, he regularly summons to the great romantic literature of the piano-Brahms, Schumann, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt-more poetry and grandeur than any other pianist alive. The moderns, Rubinstein thinks, are best left to "the brilliant youngsters to whom these sounds are more natural" (although one of the brilliant youngsters, Van Cliburn, has emerged as Rubinstein's logical successor as a master of the musical romantics...