Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Cowell: Tales of Our Countryside (All-American Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting, with Composer Cowell at the piano; Columbia; 4 sides). Henry ("Tone Clusters") Cowell has been noted chiefly as a composer-pianist who plays his ear-wrenching works partly with his fists and elbows. This composition is in a surprising, melodious vein that sounds somewhat like Sibelius...
...Great Reader. Paul Creston's real name is Joseph Guttoveggio. He was born on Manhattan's lower East Side. When he was eight, his father thought Joseph had the makings of a concert pianist, bought him an old piano for $10. Joseph never became a top-flight pianist, but for ten years he practiced like mad, spent his spare time composing little piano pieces...
...Coyoacán by a spinster aunt, he spent a rather solitary childhood writing poetry and tinkling at the piano. He attended a military school and, before he was 19, fought with Pancho Villa. Mustered out, he went to Mexico City and began his musical career as a whorehouse pianist. Today many of his songs reveal an intimate knowledge of bordello sentiment. Another permanent acquisition was a deep knife gash running upward from the left corner of his mouth. After witnessing a shooting affair which left one woman dead and several wounded, Lara decided to move up the social scale...
Lateness of season is no business handicap to Vladimir Horowitz, the greatest box-office pianist of the day. Last week this sallow, dynamic son-in-law of Arturo Toscanini closed his season with a hot-weather recital in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Critics found his playing below his usual brilliant standards. But the box office took...
...connoisseurs of piano music would place Pianist Horowitz with the top-rank interpretive artists such as Artur Schnabel, Artur Rubinstein, or Walter Gieseking. But in everything involving sheer, crystalline dexterity, Vladimir Horowitz tops every one of them. Son of a Kiev electrical engineer, nephew of a Russian music critic, Vladimir Horowitz gave his first concerts during the dog days of the Russian revolution. He was sometimes paid in butter, flour and cabbages...