Word: rubato
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James Gibbons Buneker once said that "to play Chopin, one must have acute sensibilities, a versatility of mood, a perfect mechanism, the heart of a woman and the brain of a man"; and Mile. Novaes seemed to conform with most of that statement. Occasionally she was guilty of excessive rubato, and occasionally she rather pounded the lower reaches of the piano; but, for vitality of tone, evenness of scale, and fine interpretation, she cannot find an equal among any of the contemporary pianists we have heard. The Mazurka and the Etude were especially fine. The second group was disappointing; Albeniz...