Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bela, Bartok, noted Hungarian pianist, composer, and authority on folk music, joined the depleted ranks of Harvard's Music Department Tuesday afternoon by giving the first in a series of lectures under the Horatio Appleton Lamb Fund at the Music Building before a small but appreciative audience...
...moment the pianist is trying desperately to write his autobiography on a commission from Publisher Alfred Knopf. But, mourns he, "I cannot write it. My life is too naughty. I am too shy about telling it." It is not so bad as that...
...Most of today's (examples: Gieseking, Casadesus, Heifetz, Serkin) resemble bank presidents or New Deal intellectuals. Most of yesterday's (examples: Paderewski, de Pachmann) resembled haughty princes of the blood. One lordly, athletic survivor of the time when artists wore the royal purple is orange-whiskered Polish Pianist Moriz Rosenthal, pupil of Franz Liszt, who in Manhattan last week was recovering from his 80th birthday celebration...
When Moriz Rosenthal made his U.S. debut in 1888 the audience reached such a frenzy it had to be forcibly calmed by the police. Swooned the critic of the New York Sun: "A giant of ability, a hero, a demigod, a perfect pianist." Echoed the New York Post: "His powers are so extraordinary that it is difficult to speak of them in measured language...
...sides). Famed Beethoven Specialist Schnabel gives one of Beethoven's greatest concertos a thorough workout. As a teammate, the late Frederick Stock is somewhat heavy-footed. Result: though distinguished, it still leaves the prize to Schnabel's older Victor recording with the London Philharmonic, or to Pianist Walter Gieseking and the Saxon State Orchestra (Columbia...