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Word: pianos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visiting Russian artists and scientists, and their American friends, wanted to take their Manhattan "peace" show on road tour. They had a cross-country junket all worked out, and a fine crowd-teasing routine: a little lulling piano music by their star performer, Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich, accompanied by stirring oratory to prove that it was the U.S. and not Russia, which was the real threat to peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Goodbye Now | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...usual, Toscanini had picked singers who weren't too set in their own ways to learn his, then drilled them for weeks in his dressing room, clonking the piano himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: With Love | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...program will consist of contemporary orchestral works by Boston composers. The featured work will be the first performance of Berger's "The Exiles," a cantata written in 1943. Lukas Foss, piano soloist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will perform his piano concerto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Group to Give First Concert | 3/31/1949 | See Source »

Beethoven: Sonata in F Major, Opus 24 (Emanuel Bay, piano; Jascha Heifetz, violin; Victor, 4 sides). Playing cleanly, Heifetz makes the delightful "Spring" sonata blossom. Recording: good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Mar. 28, 1949 | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Kabalevslcy: Sonata No. 3, Opus 46 (Vladimir Horowitz, piano; Victor, 4 sides). Contemporary Soviet Composer Dmitri Kabalevsky's melodic, if Mussorgsky-ish, piece is more Pianist Horowitz' meat than the Mozart Sonata in F Major, K. 332, also available this month. Both recordings: good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Mar. 28, 1949 | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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