Word: maryla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major; Polish Pianist Maryla Jonas, soloist; Artur Rodzinski, conducting...
Chopin: Piano Music (Maryla Jonas; Columbia, 6 sides). Neat, womanly interpretations of mazurkas, nocturnes and waltzes by a Polish artist who zoomed to the top in two recitals (TIME, April 8). Performance: good...
Patience & Fortitude. Polish Pianist Maryla (pronounced Mariela) Jonas should not have been such a surprise. She made her debut with the Warsaw Philharmonic at nine. Paderewski heard her play, gave her lessons. When Maryla's father objected to a music career for his daughter, Paderewski said quietly: Patience. It is possible that in five, six, seven years she will turn out to be mediocre...
...critics were in their pews. A buxom, platinum-haired woman of 35, her face was heavily rouged to cover the pallor of the past six years. Her U.S. sponsors wanted her to wear a corset; she refused ("I have to feel what I play from the legs up"). Says Maryla: "My first concert is European. Come one artist in old dress, no photogenic, no smiling. Then come complications. The criticisms are too good. Come snobs, I play too pianissimo, too fortissimo, my hair, I am too fat, my dress. My second concert is American concert. Everyone come...
...critics and audience agreed-they whistled for five encores. Maryla Jonas made her goal. It was not goodbye. It was a big hello...