Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 2, Richard Strauss's Death and Transfiguration, Chopin's E-Minor Piano Concerto. Soloist: Pianist Artur Rubinstein. Conductor: Bruno Walter...
...Gave a state dinner for the Supreme Court justices; joined them in applauding the after-dinner offerings of nimble-witted Pianist Oscar Levant...
...Noteworthy noisemakers in the fine arts were a couple of oldsters: in London, Sculptor Jacob Epstein, 66; in Paris, Pianist Alfred Cortot...
...Pianist Cortot, who had served Vichy as secretary for music and was forbidden to play for two years after the liberation, raised a noise by making his postwar debut. Cortot played the piano and the audience made the noise. The orchestra refused to accompany him, walked off stage. "Collaborationist!" yelled some of the audience. "Vive Cortot!" shouted others. Competing choruses of praise and damnation drowned out the music. Cortot grimly stuck to his keyboard, kept playing through the hubbub, finally won silence. At concert's end: an ovation...
...first noteworthy chef d'oeuvre since his 'discharge, Mr. Freeman is featured with various other Town Hall concert artists on Keynote Album Number 127. His cohorts are a heterogeneous lot. Trumpeters Charley Shavers, the modernist; "Wild Bill" Davison, the archaie; clarinetist Ernic Caccies, the smooth and polished; and pianist Joe Sullivan, the heavy handed, are all in the melting pot. The residue is for the most part interesting, yet restful, and certainly not run of the mill...