Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...destroyed Andre Wasowski's nation, but it sent him on a concert tour which made him the most widely acclaimed young pianist in Europe. Last week Rome joined Vienna and Moscow in calling the gaunt, 25-year-old Polish pianist the greatest player of Chopin in modern times...
...Fischer is not the only pianist who is content to stay where he is. Alfred Cortot, well over seventy and in semi-retirement, gave a recital of the twenty-four precludes and twenty-four etudes of Chopin. During the Rencontres Internationales at Geneva in September, at which Europe's leading intellectuals met to try to bring some unity to the post-war's ideological tangle, Wilhelm Bachaus appeared to give a recital of Beethoven sonatas and another of piano quintets with the redoubtable French Lowenguth quartet...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony, Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor. Soloist: 15-year-old Pianist Sylvia Zaremba. Conductor: Artur Rodzinski...
Deception (Warner) has a plot that might have made a howling good farce-if it had been played for laughs. Bette Davis is a young pianist, reunited after six years with the great love of her life. Cellist Paul Henreid. While Henreid has been missing in wartime Europe, Bette has been studying life, as well as counterpoint, with famous Composer Claude Rains. But Henreid must never, never know. He must be convinced, in spite of crushing evidence to the contrary, that Bette's antique-furnished penthouse is being paid for with the proceeds of her music teaching...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Sibelius' Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Mozart's Piano Concerto in C Major. Conductor: Artur Rodzinski. Soloist: Pianist Wanda Landowska...