Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wednesday evening, October 31, Myra Hess, able and well known English pianist, who will play a very interesting program, including three Bach Preludes and Fugues...
Thursday evening, November 1, Felix Fox, well known Boston pianist...
...Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, Vladimir de Pachmann, famed Russian pianist, aged 75 (TIME, Sept. 10), gave a recital on the pianoforte -his first in America in twelve years. Standees packed the parquet five deep...
Henry T. Finck (Post) : " The audience, I regret to say, encouraged the Odessan pianist in his disrespectful treatment of the great masters' music. . . . After a while his mumbled speeches, which could be heard only in the front rows, got on the nerves of some of the listeners, and they resorted to continuous applause to make him shut...
...Pachmann has invented a new technique of piano playing, a technique the characteristic feature of which is a rigidly stiff wrist. He says that until he had reached the age of 70, what he played was trash, as are trash the present performances of other pianists, who use the old technique. De Pachmann embarks upon an extended tour of the U. S. It will be interesting to see how public and critics respond to pragmatic demonstrations of the new technique, which the pianist protagonizes with such spirited phrases...