Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schubert: Sonata No. 9, Op. 120 (Robert Casadesus, pianist; Columbia; 3 sides). Delightfully lyric Schubert, affectionately played. Recording: excellent...
Economists sang: one evening H. E. Brooks, a good pianist who is also a mem ber of the British delegation, sat down in the lounge and rippled out The Blue Danube, favorite tune of Lord & Lady Keynes (the former ballet dancer Lydia Lopokova). The peer and the peeress sang the words for the delegates near them.' Money vanished: while delegates up stairs in the Mt. Washington Hotel tried to conjure up world money, downstairs in a little bar (with a small orchestra and drinks at $1 a throw), Cardini the Magician made money disappear in his long fingers...
...TIME did not imply that great Pianist Gieseking is a Nazi sympathizer, simply suggested that he and other musicians mentioned may suffer because of their Nazi and Fascist associations...
Almost unique for a period chiller is the simplicity of the plot: it's about a pianist (Boyer) who marries (Bergman) and, for the sake of a few diamonds, tries to drive his wife mad to get her put away and enable him to search her house for the coveted stones. Joseph Cotten is a hawkshaw from Scotland Yard who pulls the here act. Director George Cuckor carries the audience along with all the stages of deliberately produced insanity partly by keeping the plot moving and partly by knocking all of the "For Whom the Bell Tolls" freshness...
...syncopated heat. Last week Condon went on the air for the first of 13 weekly broadcasts (Blue Network, Sat. 3:30 E.W.T.). His opening burst, a wow, featured such vintage improvisers as Trumpeters Max Kaminsky and Oran "Hot Lips" Page, Trombonist Milfred "Miff" Mole, Clarinetist Ellsworth "Pee Wee" Russell, Pianist James P. "Jimmy" Johnson...