Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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July record-buyers will be up to their ears in Gershwin (see above). Some of it: ¶Rhapsody in Blue, two versions: Pianist Oscar Levant with the Philadelphia Orchestra (Eugene Ormandy conducting...
Ernst ("Putzi'') Hanfstaengl, Harvard graduate and ex-pianist-in-waiting to the ex-Führer, prepared to return to the fatherland after six years in British custody. Home Secretary Sir Donald Somervell announced that Putzi, who last saw Germany in 1937, was not on the Allies' list of war criminals...
...pianist was 75-year-old Franz Lehar, the world's greatest living composer of operetta music. His first brush with the Nazis came when he refused to leave his "non-Aryan" wife. After a second arrest, he moved to the Austrian town of Bad Ischl. Army G.I.s found him there last week. The portly oldster spoke of the future: "Music will come again . . . I shall write . . . about the struggle of peoples for freedom. There are many things in my head and tomorrow I start to work...
Although critics loftily wrote that a pianist could not really be gauged by Mozart, audiences liked the big, genial pianist who looked more like a Minnesota farmer than a Paris esthete. The critics eventually capitulated to Casadesus' expert left-handed soloing of Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand Alone...
Last week, two nights after the cantata broadcast, Pianist Vivian Rivkin premiered Arnell's Twenty-two Variations on an Original Theme in Carnegie Hall. Composer Arnell admitted that it had been a successful week: "CBS paid for copying the cantata scores. I spent only $10 for postage and a recording of the cantata performance-and I got two seats to Carnegie Hall...