Word: liszt
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...Liszt in Technicolor. Of the many "serious" musicians to trek to Hollywood (among them Lawrence Tibbett, Lily Pons, Risë Stevens), only Jose Iturbi and Wagnerian Tenor Lauritz Melchior have made the grade, by their ability to be themselves on the screen, to get off foolish lines with M-G-M stars Jimmy Durante and Kathryn Grayson...
Iturbi mugged with Sinatra in Anchors Aweigh, played The Donkey Serenade and conducted an 18-piano ensemble in a Technicolor thrashing of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. In his fifth picture (Holiday in Mexico) he appears with three other Iturbis-his sister, Amparo Iturbi, and his two grandchildren, Antonia and Teresa...
...four months, Kenneth Wolf startled his Cleveland parents, who are both Russian-born lawyers, by speaking a complete sentence. A year and a half later, he toddled over to the family piano, pounded out a tune by Liszt. By the time he was ten, Kenny Wolf had written a dozen pieces of his own, had been asked to leave grammar school because he knew too much...
Gypsy's demonstration was a success. With two good fingers and a thumb, she played Liszt, Chopin, Ravel. To mollify Town Hall officials (who swallowed the accordion but balked at her accustomed gypsy spangles), she appeared in a demure marquisette dress...
...iron-willed, amorous Sand and sets out on a suicidal concert tour to raise money to help his people in an uprising against the Czar. Paraded across the background in a rather ludicrous attempt at historical realism are such figures as De Musset, Balzac, Pagnanini, and Franz Liszt...