Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friday evening, in Jordan Hall, Mr. George Copeland, a specializing pianist, but one who plays his specialty, French and Spanish music, excellently, will play, returning after a long absence...
Boston went on a pianistic spree over the week end, with Mr. Bauer and Mr. Grainger conducting the celebrations. The latter gave a recital Saturday afternoon, in Jordan Hall, of which it is hard to speak moderately. Playing the Chopin B minor sonata, a Bach prelude and fugue, Schumann's Symphonic Studies, and Balakirev's Islamey, he proved himself to be a skilled pianist and musician, truly worthy of being classed with the greatest. His playing of the Bach fugue drew enthusiasm even from the most skeptical, who were...
...drew upon himself much talk about "pounding" and "not a pianist's pianist" which seems to us entirely beside the point. He furnished a thoroughly convincing, even thrilling, afternoon through his entirely artistic musicianship. He has a way of expressing his own personality through his playing without doing violence to the composer, which is characteristic of all great pianists...
...Bauer plays the Symphonic studies better than did Mr. Grainger, we should like to hear him. It is really astounding that a pianist should prove himself master of so many styles...
When a concerto heard at the hands of a pianist of the skill and artistry of Harold Bauer, still remains unconvincing, uninteresting, and long-winded, there is something the matter. Eloquence on Mr. Bauer's part, heroic effort by Mr. Monteux, nothing could redeem this very dry concerto except a very few passages in the less uninteresting last movement. If there is any meaning to this work, as there may be, since an artist of Mr. Bauer' rank sees fit to play it, we are unable to discover...