Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Austin, Tex., boogie-beating Pianist Hazel Scott flounced out on a scheduled concert before a segregated audience of 4,900. Said she: "Why would anyone come to hear me, a Negro, and refuse to sit beside someone just like...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). French Pianist-Composer Francis Poulenc (see Music) plays his own Concert Champetre...
Brahms: Sonata No. 3 in D Minor (Mischa Elman, violinist, Wolfgang Rosé, pianist; Victor, 6 sides). Both Menuhin and Szigeti have performed this more brilliantly. Recording: fair...
...Dances of Marosszék (Andor Foldes, pianist; Vox, 3 sides). Kodály (pronounced Kó-die-ee), who with the late Béla Bartók spent years researching and recording Hungarian folk music, based these picturesque fantasies on Transylvanian dances; Pianist Foldes plays them with the insight and technique of a native Hungarian, which he is. Recording: good...
Mozart: Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, K. 478 (George Szell, pianist, with members of the Budapest String Quartet; Columbia, 6 sides). This, Mozart's first try at a piano quartet, is not on a par with his second (K. 493). Szell's playing is a little on the dry side. Recording: fair...