Word: pachmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calm center of all this commerce is a small, dapper, pink-cheeked inheritor of the great Polish piano traditions. He can toss off a gesture with the aplomb of a Vladimir de Pachmann. (When his Manhattan visit last week was attended by a heavy snowstorm Rubinstein looked out his hotel window and shrugged. "The weather," said he, "has no effect upon me. I impose my personality upon the weather...
Concert artists, like dogs, always grow to resemble their patrons. Most of today's (examples: Gieseking, Casadesus, Heifetz, Serkin) resemble bank presidents or New Deal intellectuals. Most of yesterday's (examples: Paderewski, de Pachmann) resembled haughty princes of the blood. One lordly, athletic survivor of the time when artists wore the royal purple is orange-whiskered Polish Pianist Moriz Rosenthal, pupil of Franz Liszt, who in Manhattan last week was recovering from his 80th birthday celebration...