Word: novae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...precise measure of silence. Finally, humming cheerfully to herself, she went back and played it up to tempo, pouring out the great music in a liquid cascade that, even in the lonely practice session, glowed with an inner radiance. Brazil's great but little-publicized Pianist Guiomar Novaë's, 59, was getting in shape to wind up her latest U.S. tour...
...should a seasoned performer-many call her the world's best woman pianist&151;work so painstakingly over a familiar piece of music? "Ah," says Pianist Novaë's, with a knowing smile. "This is New York. You have the best artists here." But there was more to it than that. "I always play a piece differently. I always discover something different in it, and I wonder, why haven't I thought of this before? Art is a most subtle thing. Ourselves, we don't understand it always...
...Guiomar Novaë's began to understand it at four, when she played marches for her kindergarten class in São Paulo. By the time she was 14, and already well rounded in arts and languages, the Brazilian government had recognized her as a blazing prodigy, sent her to Paris, where she studied with the great Pedagogue Isidor Philipp. Back home in Brazil, her life was filled with many things besides her music: she married happily, and had a son and daughter; she took up the cause of woman's suffrage, helped out promising young musicians...
...Little Kidnappers. Youth and crabbed age try to live together on a Nova Scotia farm: a radiant fable about childhood (TIME, Sept...
...Little Kidnappers. Youth and crabbed age try to live together on a Nova Scotia farm: a radiant fable about childhood (TIME, Sept...