Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...valley below Tanglewood's Victorian-gabled main house, Guernsey cows grazed amiably around the dairy barn. In the barn stalls a pianist raced through the Bach-Busoni Toccata in C Major; in the hayloft upstairs a madrigal group worked over Purcells 17th-Century masque opera, King Arthur. Somewhere in a clump of birch a lone flutist piped the theme of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe. Down by the shores of inky Lake Mahkeenac, a brass section blared Moussorgsky's A Night on Bald Mountain, and inside the lakeside clubhouse 23-year-old Composer Lukas Foss, a Koussevitzky...
Berkshire Festival*(Sat. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Serge Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony in Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No, 2 in C Minor, Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe, second suite. Pianist Eugene List, soloist...
...Communists push him around. To illustrate the Stransky calm, friends tell how he took the fall of Paris in 1940. During the mad scramble of flight, he went for a quiet stroll along the Champs-Elysées, where he ran into the well-known Czech pianist, Rudolf Firkusny. Stransky said he had wanted to ask Firkusny's advice on a problem that had been on his mind for a long time. Was it too late in life for him to learn to play the piano? And where could he find a good teacher in Paris these days...
...singing with soft assurance such old-fashioned tunes as Grandfather's Clock and a streamlined version of Buffalo Gals called Dance with a Dolly ("with a hole in her stocking"). Newest favorite at Greenwich Village's famed Cafe Society Downtown is Sarah Vaughn, a pianist turned vocalist, who swoops up & down and around the melody in East of the Sun and Body and Soul. Some students of the subject say she is the freshest Negro talent since Ella Fitzgerald, the tisket-a-tasket girl, who is the easiest-riding rhythm singer in the business. Another promising Negress: slinky...
Fred Allen (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Oscar Levant, the smarty-pants pianist, takes a trip through Allen's alley...