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...easy to be an artist, because nothing else paid anything either. Lindner started off as a concert pianist, but in 1922 he cheated his way into an art academy by submitting a friend's sketches, and began his life's work. As a Jew and a Social Democrat, Lindner knew in 1933 that the rise of Hitler was a reason to flee. He arrived in the U.S. in 1941, began working as a magazine illustrator, did not get back to creative painting until...
...first of them to act was Pianist Gary Graffman, who canceled a February appearance in Jackson after learning of the students' arrest. His place was promptly filled by German Pianist Hans Richter-Hasser (who argued that artists should be above involving themselves in social problems), but the boycott was gathering momentum. Conductors George Szell, Leonard Bernstein and Erich Leinsdorf all announced that they would not appear before segregated audiences, and they were joined by such performers as Risë Stevens, Leon Fleisher, Jaime Laredo and Julius Katchen. Artur Rubinstein declared that such a stand is "a right and natural...
Lowell-Davidson is an imaginative pianist who sprays his fingers across the keyboard, creating little patterns and half-completed ideas: somehow the bits and pieces fit together, Davidson's performance was remarkable. His quartet included Kent Carter, a brilliant bassist, and Michael Mantler, a trumpet player whose imprecise phrasing just cluttered things up. In Laura and Portrait of Anne, both Davidson compositions, piano and bass complemented each other well...
...SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (Angel) have both recorded Schubert's Wanderer Fantasia and Sonata in A Major, and the results are surprisingly equal. The music is right down Richter's alley, but Fleisher approaches it with ease and style and seems almost the peer of Russia's master pianist...
...week's cover subject, neither quite knew what to make of the other. Painter Boris Chaliapin, son of the late, famed Russian basso, is somewhat more at home in the hot world of opera than in the cool domains of latter-day bop. In answer to requests, Jazz Pianist Thelonious Monk would mutter, "All reet," greatly confusing Chaliapin. When he finally caught on, Chaliapin replied in Russian-accented retaliation: "All root." During four sittings Thelonious had a disconcerting habit of dropping off to sleep. Chaliapin would yell at him, "Monk, Monk, wake up!", then prod...