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Word: pianists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program, as a sop to Occidentals, a Chinese pianist played Chopin. By contrast, Chopin's music sounded anxious, hurried, and too full of sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Liang on the Ku-Cheng | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...group voted overwhelmingly for Stacy after prolonged consideration of over twenty names submitted by several local, New York, and Chicago agencies. Particularly influencing the choice of Stacy was the fact that for seven straight years he has won the "Downbeat" poll for the outstanding commercial pianist of the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JESS STACY'S BAND NAMED FOR JUBILEE | 3/26/1946 | See Source »

Since Danny Kaye's comic talent has begun to be taken seriously, he has been made the target of some surprising statements and offers. Pianist Artur Rubinstein said: "I feel most often about him what everyone else felt about Chaplin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Git Gat Gittle | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstdngl, onetime court pianist to Adolf Hitler, was about to be returned to Germany, much against his wishes. In British and American hands through most of the war-and often rumored to be helping the Allies against the Fatherland-he was now in England, had no taste for facing "German underground fanatics" back home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aphorists | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

Debussy: Preludes, Book I (1910) (E. Robert Schmitz, pianist; Victor, 14 sides). The shimmering Voiles (Sails) and eerie La Cathedrale Engloutie (The Engulfed Cathedral) are not as sensitively played as the Nazis' star Pianist Walter Gieseking played them in 1939 for Columbia, but the recording is better. Performance: good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Mar. 4, 1946 | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

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