Word: moszkowski
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stolen Heaven is more likable than most gem-thievery pictures because its pattern is fringed with immortal music. The characters hide behind doors and talk crook lingo while the sound track throbs with Liszt, Chopin, Grieg, Moszkowski, Strauss. The music is introduced by having the pianist practicing incessantly for a promised return to the concert stage. Best number: a montage giving an idea of what Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody might look like if sounds were pictures...
...seems to be no fatal drawback for a pianist to lose his right hand. There have been written for the left hand alone four good pieces with opus numbers by Reger; two finely conceived and well-placed selections of Skriabin, opus 9; etudes by Moszkowski, Saint-Saens, Berens; and also Brahms has set Bach's Chaconne in D minor for violin alone as a study for the left hand...
William W. Austin '39, Glee Club accompanist and soloist with the Pierian on two occasions last year, will again render a set of piano numbers, by Schumann and Moszkowski...