Word: mazurkas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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White Lilacs. With appropriate adaptations of waltz and mazurka, the Shubert Brothers offered this glib and pleasant operetta based upon the life of famed Composer Frederic François Chopin. It stresses the episodes in which the composer was seen about with George Sand, meeting her at the home of the Countess d' Agoult and playing or grieving with her at Majorca...
...when Henry and Mrs. Ford led off in a lancers, Mr. Menjou followed, with his fiancée, Cinemactress Kathryn Carver, whom he will shortly espouse in Europe. Naturally the smart folk of the Majestic followed gaily the lead of Motor Man Ford when he proceeded to waltz, polka, mazurka and Virginia reel. Tales of these dancings and prancings flashed ahead of the Majestic and spiced English comment and curiosity about Celebrity Ford, until his arrival became London's most toasting-hot teatime news...
...program this evening is announced as follows: Novelette in F-sharp minor Schumann Scherzo in A Major Beethoven Rhapsody in B minor Brahma Burlesca Scarlatti Le Carillon de Cynthere Couperin The Little Windmills Couperin Descriptions Automatiques Satie Preludes in A minor and B flat Bach Mazurka in C sharp minor Chopin Prelude Scriabine Prelude in C major Prokofieff March Prokofieff Impromptu in F minor Schubert
...started out with two movements from the Bach Italian Concerto, in the first of which he was noticeably nervous and therefore inaccurate. The second he played with a real depth of emotion and stylistic discrimination perhaps unexpected of him. In the Chopin number which followed, the Fantasie-Impromptu, a Mazurka, the A Flat Ballade, he again disclosed a wealth of poetic imagination, proving himself a really great Chopin player...
...with most of that statement. Occasionally she was guilty of excessive rubato, and occasionally she rather pounded the lower reaches of the piano; but, for vitality of tone, evenness of scale, and fine interpretation, she cannot find an equal among any of the contemporary pianists we have heard. The Mazurka and the Etude were especially fine. The second group was disappointing; Albeniz has written much better piano music than "El Albaicin", and as for Liszt, he seldom rises to anything more than a series of mechanical jimcracks...