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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bartók: Mikrokosmos, Volume I (Béla Bartók, pianist; Columbia; 6 sides; $3.50). Hungarian Modernist Bartók neatly pecks out some of the 153 pungent, tricky-rhythmed pieces from his Mikrokosmos (little world), which he composed for piano students-much as Gertrude Stein might write an English grammar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: SYMPHONIC, ETC. | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

Death's final cadence this week closed the long career of a frail, wispy-haired Pole, the greatest pianist of his time, and one of the three greatest who ever lived. Patriot, man of affairs, bon vivant, philanthropist, Ignace Jan Paderewski had not played publicly since Poland fell. '"I simply could not stand it," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Death of Paderewski | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...Iturbi, turbulent-tempered Spanish conductor-pianist, got on his high horse last week with one angry bound. Reason: he was slated to conduct a program (July 10) at Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell, on which Swingster Benny Goodman was scheduled to play one of his specialties, the Mozart clarinet concerto. From California, Conductor Iturbi telephoned Philadelphia: "[Goodman] is a jazz-band leader. It would be beneath my dignity to conduct for him." (Iturbi has accepted dignified fees for appearing with Bing Crosby on the radio, playing piano accompaniment for Bob Burns' bazooka.) Drawled Benny Goodman: "Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Turbulent Iturbi | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

Died. Ignace Jan Paderewski, 80, the most famed pianist of his time; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 7, 1941 | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...Pianist Humby's chief concern in the U.S. is raising money for London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, in which her second brother is chief surgeon. Another concern is broadcasting to Britain by short wave. Pianist Humby hopes that last week's CBS program was heard by her mother, a night rescue worker in London. Miss Humby does not yet know whether her earlier broadcast was picked up where it was aimed-the aircraft carrier Illustrious, whose commander at that time was her brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pianist Humby | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

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