Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minnesota's 250-lb. Tackle Leo Nomellini, amateur boogie-woogie pianist and short-order cook who never played football in high school. Extremely fast for his weight, Leo was the star of the line that held Michigan's great offense to 22 yards net gain by rushing. The other lineman was Penn's 220-lb. Center Chuck Bednarik, alias The Clutch, a bear for handing out punishment...
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 (the Paganini Quartet; Victor, 6 sides). Here, in Beethoven's last great quartet, is the kind of music that Pianist Artur Schnabel describes as "better than it can be played." The Paganini Quartet version is almost the equal of the old Budapest String Quartet performance; the recording is much better...
Beethoven: Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2, Op. 12 (Jascha Heifetz, violinist; Emanuel Bay, pianist; Victor, 8 sides). Heifetz and Bay make these early, Haydnish sonatas sparkle for all they are worth. Recording: good...
Chopin: Preludes (Artur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor, 8 sides). This one deserves to join the great company of Rubinstein's Mazurka and Nocturne albums. Some of Chopin's best music, and some of Pianist Rubinstein's finest playing. Recording: excellent...
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Vladimir Horowitz, pianist; Victor, 7 sides). Ravel, Stokowski & Co. turned Mussorgsky's fine, delicate "pictures" into big, gaudy orchestral frescoes; Pianist Horowitz has returned them, in splendid condition, to the instrument Mussorgsky wrote them for. Recording: fair...