Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bach: Three Part Inventions (Erno Balogh, pianist; Disc, 6 sides). The master's 15 instruction exercises turned into bubbling little masterpieces by a fastidious musician. First U.S. recording. Performance: good...
...Britain's best musicians. But no women. Explained he: "If the lady is not well-favored, the male instrumentalists do not wish to play near her. If she is well-favored, they can't." Sir Thomas, whose blonde young wife is both well-favored and a concert pianist, stroked his snowy tuft and quickly added: "Not that I don't think women are good musicians...
...them made it ; one who did was a Polish boy prodigy named Moriz Rosenthal. At nine, he walked more than 400 miles from his native Lemberg to Vienna to study piano. At 14, he was made court pianist by Rumania's Prince Carol I. He became Liszt's star pupil, and practiced six hours a day to master the nuances of technique, played command performances all over Europe, exchanged ideas and mutual congratulations with Brahms and Johann Strauss in Vienna cafes...
Died. Moriz Rosenthal, 83, famed Polish concert pianist who played for kings and emperors in the glittering days of the Strauss waltz, was the last of the famous pupils of prodigious Pianist Franz Liszt; in Manhattan (see Music...
...distraught heroine (Catherine McLeod) is a musically talented Trilby, dominated by her teacher, great Pianist Philip Dorn. With his mother (Mme. Ouspenskaya) as chaperone, they tour the world, lounging around between smashingly successful concerts in what must be the world's flossiest and most costly hotel accommodations. Pianist Philip Dorn is jealous of his talented pupil as a musician, but he never really sees her as a woman until after she has morosely gone off to marry her childhood sweetheart (William Carter...