Word: rachmaninoff
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...Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2 in C Minor; Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor; Grieg's Concerto in A Minor for Piano and Orchestra; Schubert's Symphony No. 8 [Unfinished] in B Minor; Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue; Arturo Toscanini conducting Ferde Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite; a medley of Sigmund Romberg show tunes; Vladimir Horowitz playing piano pieces by Saint-Saëns, Czerny and Tchaikovsky; and an album called Two Sisters from Boston, in which the Metropolitan Opera's Lauritz Melchior sings Hollywoodian "arias...
...inches several times (once the XS-1's cabin pressure system went wrong, subjected him to skull-cracking pressure), he showed no nervousness or apprehension over his job. Between flights at Muroc he lounged comfortably in an adobe cottage at nearby Willow Springs. He swam, read, listened to Rachmaninoff and Chopin recordings, dreamily contemplated his fondest ambition: exploring the Amazon with a helicopter. From time to time he climbed into a conventional P-51, flew to Los Angeles to look in on his girl friends...
Brailowsky's Chopin is more restrained but also more mannered than the gusty performances of his late, great friend Sergei Rachmaninoff. Brailowsky likes to think that he plays with the igth Century delicacy Chopin himself used. Says he: "The Polish and the Russian, we understand each other." But Chopin is not Brailowsky's favorite composer; Beethoven and Mozart come first. A typical Brailowsky concert runs from Bach or Scarlatti to Prokofiev-but always includes some Chopin. In Buenos Aires he played 17 recitals in eight weeks without repeating any work...
...Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, he is accustomed to U.S. audiences. He believes in educating his listeners gradually. Says he: ''I exposed them, step by step, to better music than Strauss waltzes and Tchaikovsky. So we have gone from Victor Herbert to Aaron Copland, from Rachmaninoff to Shostakovich." He is one of the most relaxed conductors in the business, but believes that the waving of his long spidery arms helps both the orchestra and audience to understand the music...
Dorn plays Leopold Goronoff, as great a conductor and pianist as his name would suggest, and personally accounts for fourteen of the twenty-three Rachmaninoff tidbits. He discovers a budding young pianistic genius on a Pennsylvania farm in the person of Myra Hassman, who plays the Concerto twenty-seven times and addresses Goronoff incessantly as "Maestro." At her New York debut she plays guess what too well to suit Goronoff's touchy ego, so they split and she marries a Pennsylvania farmer who's Almost as good and kind as he is stupid. After a number of obvious events masquerading...