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...House Rose Garden, managed to chuckle at 92 cartoons featuring John F. Kennedy, jokingly told the cartoonists that he is really "much thinner" and much less hairy-headed than they had depicted him. 10:30 a.m. Delivered, at Arlington Cemetery, a speech extolling Ignace Jan Paderewski, the great Polish pianist and patriot who died in the U.S. in 1941. Occasion: the dedication of a plaque marking Paderewski's crypt. Paderewski was buried at Arlington, said the President, with the understanding that "when Poland would one day be free again, he would be returned to his native country. That...
...post as Musiklehrer at the Folkwangschule in Essen, where he will teach a course in something like philosophy of drumming. He tours everywhere and vacations on the Côte d'Azur. "Why not stay here?" he says. "I earn a good living-a very good living." > PIANIST BUD POWELL, 38, is unquestionably the most important jazz musician in Europe, and he is universally considered the best of the bebop pianists. He left New York in 1959, briefly emerging from the fog that had kept him close to mental hospitals since 1947. In Paris, he is distant, silent...
Last week, without violating his oath, Rubinstein dominated the news in the German music press. In the Dutch border town of Nijmegen, the pianist played to a hall full of Germans, and as all who attended had foreseen, there was more in the air than just music. For the 1,000 Germans who crossed the border of Ru binstein's conscience, the recital was a stirring but pleasant penance-a chance to listen to a great Jewish pianist play Beethoven. For Rubinstein, it was a delicate compromise, a gesture of understanding, a test of the heart...
...Like a Pianist. The great surgeons' egoism is reflected in a selective amnesia. Practically any one of them, asked to name the three greatest living surgeons, has difficulty in thinking of two others. Individualists down to their physical characteristics, great surgeons show that even their skilled hands need be of no particular design. Like a pianist's, they may be long and slender or broad and powerful. Dr. Moore's are of medium proportions, kept limber by playing piano duets with his children on paired Steinway grands...
Liszt: Concerto No. 1, Les Préludes (Andre Watts, pianist; the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Bernstein; Columbia) confirms the astonishing first impression 16-year-old Pianist Watts made in his New York debut in January. A fluent and subtle performance...