Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piano's a piano, a haircut's a haircut and organized charity is a vast, competitive business. To a million or more natives of Melanesia in the South Pacific, a piano is a big-fellow-bockiss-you-fight- him-teeth-belong-im-now-bockiss-he-cry. A Melanesian haircut is cut-im-grass-belong-head-belong-me. The only way most Melanesians can communicate with each other or with white men is by a bastard mixture of French, German, English, tribal dialects and baby-talk called pidgin. But when trouble strikes in Melanesia, pidgin is all that...
...been three years since Pianist Vladimir Horowitz had played in public with father-in-law Arturo Toscanini. But they had played the work together before, and recorded it together-Brahms's mighty Piano Concerto No. 2. This time, at the end of the rehearsal, the Maestro had only one suggestion for "Volodya": Toscanini trotted to the piano, plunked out a passage while Soloist Horowitz, standing by and towering over him, listened carefully and respectfully. They agreed to leave out one retard...
...Race. Most listeners had lately found a new maturity and depth-if not yet real warmth-in the playing of Vladimir Horowitz, the sallow, thin-faced Russian who first astounded the U.S. 20 years ago with his mastery of piano technique...
...turned to the composition of the three quartets sponsored by Count Rasoumowski. At the very beginning of the first, the change in the composer is apparent: a paradoxical humor later expressed in the Eighth Symphony and an increasing tendency to write for himself which culminated in the late piano sonatas...
Arturo Toscanini & NBC Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). First of an all-Brahms series. Piano soloist: Vladimir Horowitz...