Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because the hero (Anton Walbrook) is a famed Polish pianist, Suicide Squadron resounds with melody. Its background score, composed by Richard Addinsel, is alone worth the price of admission. The picture follows Patriot Walbrook from gutted Warsaw to the U.S., underscores his marriage to a pretty U.S. heiress (Sally Gray) and her misbegotten attempt to keep him from flying with the remnants of his Polish squadron, reassembled in England...
Zutty Singleton and round-faced "Kansas." ace Negro drummers; Trombonists Benny Morton and Jay C. Higginbotham; bright-eyed "Hot Lips" Page and tiny Max Kaminsky; Bassist Billy Taylor; James P. Johnson, veteran Negro hot pianist. Twelve in all took turns. Unceremonious master of ceremonies was assertive, sharp-jawed Eddie Condon, who did what leading was done while he strummed his guitar...
...When Pianist Claudio Arrau wound up his third U.S. tour and boarded a Pan American Clipper for Puerto Rico last week, he had made plenty of hay in a shining...
...long time the weather had been against him. When the dapper Chilean pianist arrived in the U.S. last fall, he was just another paid hand in the crowded concert field. A brilliant Carnegie Hall recital last November turned the trick. He was snapped up for concert dates; nine-tenths of them were sellouts. He went to Boston in January to appear as soloist with Serge Koussevitzky's resplendent orchestra. The Bostonians liked him so well that he was called back for a return engagement the same month-a thing the Boston Symphony never does. Fortnight ago he likewise reappeared...
...Anthony Eden, Claudio Arrau at 38 is an old hand in the concert field. As a lad of 20 he made a short U.S. tour in 1924, but failed to go over, and left with a poor opinion of U.S. musical taste. Europe promptly claimed him. Until the war, Pianist Arrau was content to divide his lucrative concert time between Europe and South America, playing 125 concerts a year...