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Word: pianos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critic murmured contentedly to his companion. "Never a lapse in taste, never a bar without breeding!" Even as he spoke the Cleveland Symphony rumbled like a drain in difficulty and belched forth a stentorian blat of brass. Whereupon the tiny man, exploding chords like cannoncrackers, hurled himself upon the piano, and for the next 72 minutes, while the orchestra bawled like a herd of lovesick hippos, blasted away with a display of percussive pianistics that rattled the hall so hard nobody noticed the sound of a subway train thundering within 40 feet of the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: A Bridge to the Future | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

...audience sat stupefied for several seconds and then released a roar of approval that persisted through eleven curtain calls. Soloist Pietro Scarpini and the Cleveland had safely and on the whole admirably negotiated the longest and, in the opinion of many pianists, the most difficult piano concerto ever composed. It was, in fact, a monstrosity, as some critics limply acknowledged. But they had to concede, along with Cleveland's crusty old George Szell, that it was "a monstrosity full of genius," and that the man who wrote it was a genius full of monstrosity, one of the most spectacular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: A Bridge to the Future | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

...Artur Rubinstein, Busoni was "the greatest pianist of his time." Many musicians consider him a titanic technician and volcanically creative interpreter; all agree that his radical re-examination of the instrument and its literature struck a body blow at the romantic style and inspired the modern approach to the piano. Yet in the long view, Busoni was most significant where he most significantly failed: as a composer who longed to be great but was merely grand, as a pioneer who built a bridge to the future but could not pass over it himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: A Bridge to the Future | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

...about Italy: wild mane and burning eyes, sensuous lips and rich, soft voice. Wherever he played, and he played from St. Petersburg to San Francisco, Ferruccio was besieged by women who wanted to make beautiful music with him. It cannot be said that he was always faithful to his piano, but in the broad Italian construction of the term he was loyal to his wife, a placid Swedish girl who thought he was simply wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: A Bridge to the Future | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

Born Restless. Born in 1912, the youngest of 15 children of a taciturn Kansas farmer, Parks began his search at 16, when his mother died and his family scattered. He worked as a busboy and a waiter, a piano player in a Minneapolis whorehouse and a janitor in a Chicago flophouse, a runner for a Harlem dope pusher, a dining-car waiter and a lumberjack for the Civilian Conservation Corps. He was so poor that he often slept on trolley cars, and he regularly raided trash barrels for discarded newspapers so that he could check the classifieds for jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Armed with a Camera | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

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