Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presiding and performing at this one-course feast is 50-year-old Pianist Alexander Brailowsky, a small, lean Russian. Like another great Chopinist, Ignace Paderewski, Brailowsky studied in Vienna under Leschetizky, but it was not until he was already a box-office favorite in Paris that he got the idea of giving all of the master's works...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Stravinsky's Rites of Spring, Mozart's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B Flat Major. Soloist: Pianist Alec Templeton. Conductor: Artur Rodzinski...
...whole sections of braying saxophones, had to support only a trumpet, a trombone, and a clarinet beside the rhythm section, and this unique instrumentation, reminiscent of the old time marching bands of Edmond's younger days, evoked a warm, informal flavor which no amount of script arranging by pianist Charlie Bateman, seemed able to eradicate...
...ever affixed to a set of traps, and was situated somewhat obscurely at the very back center of the stage, the pained contortionings of his thin, mobile face and the adept drumstick twirling of his educated fingers got a great deal of attention from the audience. The drummer, the pianist, and the bass player, when they were functioning behind the clarinet, managed to build up a charged rhythmic setting which did fully as much for Edmond Hall as the tom toms used to do for Emperor Jones...
Dorn plays Leopold Goronoff, as great a conductor and pianist as his name would suggest, and personally accounts for fourteen of the twenty-three Rachmaninoff tidbits. He discovers a budding young pianistic genius on a Pennsylvania farm in the person of Myra Hassman, who plays the Concerto twenty-seven times and addresses Goronoff incessantly as "Maestro." At her New York debut she plays guess what too well to suit Goronoff's touchy ego, so they split and she marries a Pennsylvania farmer who's Almost as good and kind as he is stupid. After a number of obvious events masquerading...