Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell last week, Chilean-born Pianist Claudio Arrau set some kind of record: he played both of Johannes Brahms's monumental piano concertos, Nos. 1 & 2, the longest two in the standard piano repertoire, all on one program. The audience liked it fine, and so did the critics...
Written overseas in Italy, the song was arranged for complete orchestration for $35 by Franco Mele, one of Rome's leading night club pianists, and was copywrighted later in this country and recorded at Burrier's expense by Preston Sandiford, a Negro pianist in Boston...
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor (Eugene List, pianist, with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles, Alfred Wallenstein conducting; Decca, 10 sides). The concerto which is rapidly replacing Tchaikovsky's as the most heard and most abused, played by President Truman's favorite pianist (TIME, April 22). The late composer's own recording for Victor (1929) remains the definitive one. Performance: good...
...Symphony (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Kabalevsky's First Piano Concerto, Pianist Vera Brodsky as soloist; Haydn's Symphony No. 95 in C Minor...
...symphony comes to my house with the contract. . . . You've got to be a personality. Even Toscanini and Stokowski owe part of their success to showmanship. And take a man like Iturbi. He has the hands of a woodchopper and yet people think he is a great pianist. They really don't go to hear Iturbi the pianist. They go to see Iturbi the movie star...