Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Staking his savings on an election that was still three years distant, he built one of the country's strongest Tory organizations, canvassed every house in town, held special meetings for professional people who are normally the backbone of the party-and played the national anthem on the piano. His name helped: to most Britons even today, the Ted Heath (no kin) is a bandleader, and young voters occasionally attended his rallies under the impression that there would be dancing. In the 1950 election Heath squeaked in by 133 votes. By assiduous nursing he carried Bexley...
People & Wars. Frémaux had come back to civilian life from a Legion tour of duty in Algeria just as Rainier began conductor hunting. Born in northern France, Frémaux had studied piano briefly at Valenciennes Conservatory before World War II sent him into the Maquis. He went to St.-Cyr military academy at war's end, served in Indo-China under General LeClerc. The experience, he thinks, was not altogether foreign to a musical career: "I learned a lot from my years in Indo-China; it was my discovery of the world; I saw people...
...Boston Tea Party. Henderson is spokesman and operating chief, but when financial transactions are involved, both men join in the negotiations. At Beacon Hill social gatherings, Henderson seems anything but a shrewd businessman as he lopes about snapping flashgun pictures of his fellow guests or sits down at the piano to torture the company with his own composition. Come with Me (sample line: "Even silly atoms know they should detonate"). Actually, he is a financial wizard who, along with the Zeckendorfs and the Urises, was one of the first to see how a small stake could be parlayed into...
...contains little but hack work. The orchestra seemed to like it, though, and they managed to play the first three movements in decent enough fashion. Their attack was spirited and lively, their intonation misleadingly good; only their dynamic shadings were not what they might have been: most of the piano passages melted into thin...
...Bartok, however, was another matter. Miss Katja Andy, a very good piano player, was the soloist, and one of her best qualities, thankfully, is an ability to complete her appointed rounds, like the postman, without reference to threatening atmospheric conditions. Consequently, one was often able to hear Miss Andy's precise, professional, and sensibly articulated playing even in the teeth of an orchestral noise of near gale force. This piano concerto was also listed as a premiere performance in the area, but that is a mistake: its premiere has yet to be heard...