Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concertgoers hear oftenest? Last week, the Herald Tribune's statistical-minded Music Editor Francis D. Perkins totted up his annual reckoning of what was played in concert halls during the season. For the second straight year, Chopin's Ballade in G Minor won the prize. In 225 piano recitals, it had been played, for better or worse, in more than one out of ten. Runner-up: Beethoven's "Appassionata" sonata...
Toscanini and Boito had wept together at the first piano reading of Nerone. But when Boito orchestrated it, Toscanini felt the orchestration faulty, and said so. They quarreled. Years later, Toscanini heard that Boito was dying in an obscure clinic in Milan; he arrived too late to see him alive. Toscanini spent two years finishing the orchestration of Nerone and gave its first performance at La Scala in 1924. But, say Toscanini's friends, he has always felt that he had failed his onetime comrade...
Most of them are just on hand for the fun of it-a fine dancer (Paul Draper) who wants to be a comic; a lyric poet (Reginald Beane) of the hot piano; a cop (Broderick Crawford) so kind-hearted he wants to hand in his badge; an old Arab (Pedro de Cordoba) with exquisite hands and a diagnosis of the world's ills: "No foundation all down the line." The bartender is Bill Bendix at his gentlest...
...scholarship at the New England Conservatory of Music, but turned it down to take a piano-playing job in Irving Berlin's publishing house. "I began running into people like Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans and the Gershwins. It made me want to write Broadway shows." The first Broadway show he wrote, Blackbirds of 1928, with songs like Diga Diga Doo' and I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby, made him famous. Jimmy confesses that he began to "rake in the loot...
...place in this film, music is used with great intelligence. When father Hubbard hires some musicians from Mobile to play his Opus 3, they are good but not too good at their jobs; the piano is the good but imperfect instrument you would expect to find in such a home; and Opus 3 is perfectly what might be expected of a vain, surprisingly talented but utterly derivative, provincial composer...