Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of the groups who opposed the pianist's tour feel that as a Nazi sympathizer, Gieseking should not be able to profit from an American concert tour. This feeling is understandable, but again it leads to a damaging error. This position follows logically to the absurd proposition that American cannot buy goods made by any Germans who condoned the Nazi government. If Gieseking cannot profit from the sale of his talent, the many millions of Germans like him should not be able to profit either...
Muzak's piped-in music programs had no spot for a composition in dead silence. But last week, hardy Manhattan concertgoers made a spot for Composer Cage's rhythmic, percussive "sounds & silence" music. At Carnegie Recital Hall for two nights in a row, Pianist Maro Ajemian thudded, clanked, bonged and chimed through 16 sonatas and four interludes on a "prepared" piano outfitted with bolts, screws, pieces of rubber and plastic stuck inside to short-circuit the tones. (After the first night, someone unCaged the piano, and the composer himself took three hours getting all the gadgets back into...
...surrounded by a host of others, full of Venetians shouting thanks to the great American who had helped their Malipiero. She tosses it off as legend and indeed she is bound to be legendary. As well as being the most generous music patron in America, she is an accomplished pianist and has frequently taken part with her artists in concerts which are wellknown for their excellence. A composer herself, she is an understanding critic of the works she commissions...
...voluntary exile when Franco came to power. Now, with Franco's permission, he was back lecturing again. He had been told to stick to cultural subjects, but Ortega seemed to have other plans. He had chosen to lecture on Toynbee merely "to loosen up my fingers like a pianist." Toynbee was "a good minor subject, vast enough to be used as a pretext for ... my lifelong tendency toward social and political themes...
Harvard's Professor Demos had posed his problem specifically about Pianist Walter Gieseking, who had played at Joseph Goebbels' bidding. But in varying degrees other musicians had been tarred with the same brush: Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had once taken a Nazi post, but who fought to keep the Jewish musicians in his Berlin Philharmonic;* and Flagstad, who had returned to occupied Norway to be with her husband (he died before he could be tried for collaboration). Flagstad had never sung for either quislings or Nazis...