Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invitation to Music (Wed. 11:30 p.m., CBS). Brazil's Heitor Villa-Lobos conducts the world premiere of his Bachianas Brasileiras No. 3. Soloist: Brazilian Pianist Jose Brandao...
Recitals are again more a matter of quantity than quality: Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach cycles are being given concurrently this month by the young musicians. The big sensation of the past month was the arrival of Claudio Arrau. Billed, by a quote from the Boston Herald, as the "greatest pianist of our time," the Chilean virtuoso almost lived up to the title. Between masterful performance of the G major and E flat Beethoven concerti, he gave an immensely successful recital highlighted by magnificent performances of the Bach Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue and the Brahms Variations on a theme by Pagannini...
Item: Edwin Fischer, I was very reliably informed, was "made" as a pianist on the money provided for him and his orchestra by his former wife, a Jewess. But with the arrival of the Nazi regime he not only played in Germany, but ousted the Jews from his orchestra before he was even requested to. Fischer is now a Professor at the Conservatory of Lucerne, whose Meisterkurs for piano draws him 500 francs per pupil per year (ten lessons). He gives recitals throughout Switzerland and will appear in London next month...
...play they had pretty much to be good little boys. The great shout in favor of Furtwangler was that he "didn't throw out the Jews until he had to" and that he was responsible for getting many Jewish musicians out of danger (e.g. Carl Flesch). One noted English pianist, however, who was asked to join a group to defend the conductor, told me that the only reply she could make was: "Don't talk to me about Flesch; how many babies did he save? Of the little children who were taken from their mothers to be raised in camps...
George W. Bagby on a concert by famed Pianist Anton Rubinstein: "Well, sir, he had the blamedest, biggest, catty-corneredest pianner you ever laid your eyes on-something like a distracted billiard table on three legs. . . . Played well? You bet he did. When he first sit down, he peered to care mighty little about playing, and wished he hadn't come. He tweedle-eedled a little on the treble, and twoodle-oodled some on the bass. . . . All of a sudden, old Ruby changed his tune. . . . He lit into them keys like a thousand of brick. He give...