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Americans who think that Hollywood has reach the depths would do well to sit all the way through "The Life of Mozart." Somewhere near the close the great Wolfgang is visited by a new pupil who sits at the piano to play a work of his own. The wild-eyed student starts into the opening phrases of the Eroica Symphony, and as the horns and strings come in from the background Mozart whispers hoarsely, "You cannot be my pupil, Laudwig; you have already learned all there is to know...
...wife, a Jewess. But with the arrival of the Nazi regime he not only played in Germany, but ousted the Jews from his orchestra before he was even requested to. Fischer is now a Professor at the Conservatory of Lucerne, whose Meisterkurs for piano draws him 500 francs per pupil per year (ten lessons). He gives recitals throughout Switzerland and will appear in London next month...
...State Supreme Court has said it is all right. But Mrs. Vashti McCollum, 33, an angry atheist of Champaign, who had brought the subject up, planned to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her eleven-year-old son James had been "embarrassed," she said, because he was the only pupil in his class who had declined the voluntary Bible lesson. Religion, fumed Mrs. McCollum, is "a racket based on fear and prejudice and a chronic disease of the imagination contracted in childhood...
Among the former students and friends with contributions in the book are former Pound pupil Julius Stone of the University of Sydney and Lord Wright, Chairman of the U. N. War Crimes Commission, called the "greatest of the judges in England today," by Dean Pound...
...little too much banging. He long ago broke with Teacher Landowska, whose playing is more showy and dramatic. Says Kirkpatrick starchily: "Landowska is a great artist. But other artists take different ways. It generally means a break." Wanda Landowska also long ago stopped speaking of Kirkpatrick as her pupil. Says she: "Shall we say, my pupils must be my friends...