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Word: rachmaninoff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Regularly $9.98, Special Only $3.98." Inside is a strange mixture of musical candies: Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy singing Indian Love Call, Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony playing the Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin. Perez Prado, Tommy Dorsey and Perry Como rub grooves with Enrico Caruso, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Leopold Stokowski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Compleat Diskman | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...EVENING CONCERT. Haydn, Symphony 103 (drum roll); Rachmaninoff, 'Cello Sonata; Vivaldi, Concerto in D for viola d'amore; Beethoen, Sonata 25 for piano, opus 79; Mendelssohn, Quartet no. 4; Ravel, Pavanne pour une Infante Defunte...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB Programs for the Week | 11/27/1959 | See Source »

...meantime, De Groot is filling out his concert season with old standbys, e.g., the Brahms version of Bach's Violin Chaconne, which he played last week to critical huzzahs on the Dutch radio. He is also rearranging pieces by Debussy, Grieg, Liszt, Rachmaninoff. And if the day should ever come when he exhausts both the old and the new repertories, he sees an almost endless future in recording. Under the name "Guy Sherwood," for instance, he appears in a radio series on which he plays numbers such as Kitten on the Keys, for which he has deftly recorded first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: With the Left Hand | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...odds held fast through the third contestant's rendering of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, and at evening's end the expected announcement was made: 24-year-old Pianist Malcolm Frager was the 2Oth-anniversary winner of the U.S.'s most prestigious instrumental competition, for the Leventritt Award...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fanfare for Piano | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Early this year Bachelor Koufax was hampered by a sore shoulder that restricted him for five weeks to little more than pitching batting practice and lifting the arm of his hi-fi set (he likes Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky). Overall, he has a record of only 8-4. But with Koufax now at his blinding best (31 strike-outs -in his last two games) and crossfiring Don Drysdale leading the league in strikeouts (207), the second-place Dodgers have the fastest staff in the majors as they settle down for the September stretch fight with the Giants. To prove the point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Kid from Brooklyn | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

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