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Citation: "At the time of the centenary last year, the Steinways had produced 342,000 pianos, used and abused by pian ists from Liszt to Rubenstein the Second...
...featured soloist was pianist Findlay Cockrell '57, winner of Pierian Sodality's Concerto Contest this year. His interpretation of the Liszt E-Flat Piano Concerto was refreshing in two respects. He brought to it a brashness and fluency of approach with which his technical prowess was fully capable of coping; and he avoided even the slightest hint of those mannerisms whose abuse has made this work seem hackneyed to many...
...music. Another big influence is the orchestra's Budapest-born conductor, Frederic Balazs, 35, who was engaged two seasons ago. Conductor Balazs has organized an exchange concert with Phoenix, children's concerts and a new civic chorus. He has already staged two large-scale choral works. Liszt's monumental Christus and Haydn's Creation. Best of all, Balazs sees to it that there is a modern American composition, e.g., Ulysses Kay's Horizons, on every program...
...musical hero of Paris last week was a 27-year-old pianist from Long Branch, N.J. (pop. 23,000) named Julius Katchen. Two thousand filled the Theatre des Champs-Elysees to hear his program of Brahms, Schumann, Chopin and Liszt, cheered up four encores and, at the end, crowded around the stage shouting for more. Verdict of the serious-minded critic of Paris-Presse on the performance: "A miracle of faith and fervor...
Digging Deeper. Periodically Pianist Katchen returned to his homeland for a recital. "My technique," says Katchen. "caused many critics to classify me as strictly a virtuoso; a technician who is able to race brilliantly through Liszt Rhapsodies and Chopin Etudes." As recently as 1951, Manhattan critics felt that he had plenty of speed but not enough depth, and Julius returned to his Left Bank apartment in Paris and more Euro pean appearances...