Word: schumann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forster read the opera scene in "Where Angels Fear to Tread," the chapter on the caves and part of the last chapter of "A Passage to India," the symphony scene in "Howard's End," and 'My Wood," an essay. Asked about an antipathy for Schumann expressed in one of his works, Forster explained that he had "changed over Schumann," and inquired how the Americans now regard that composer...
...hands down over 150 other pianists. He is still studying--and his technique shows it occasionally--but from the point of view of interpretation of a wide variety of composers, his three concerts were the best I have heard on the Continent. From a lyrically beautiful Bach, to a Schumann with just the right blend of Classicism and Romanticism, to a mystically impressionistic Debussy, he displayed an understanding and taste that was, especially for a boy of 16, really amazing...
...student, Elizabeth was always systematic rather than brilliant. She learned to play Schumann, Chopin and Beethoven capably and accurately on the piano, though she preferred Bing Crosby recordings. Her drawings, like the horse she executed on linoleum for Granny Queen's Christmas, were painstaking and thorough. Very different were Sister Margaret's drawings of an imagined character called the Pinkle-Ponkle, who hovered vaguely over towns. "If he were to come down," Margaret replied to all critics, "he'd find worm sandwiches and caterpillar jam-green jam." Like her father, Elizabeth worries a good deal over Margaret...
...kids and enough money, he kept telling himself; he was always dabbling shrewdly in dry cleaning stores and peanut stands. He retired in Pittsburgh, retired again in California after his nose was pushed crooked again. His departure got so gradual it made the farewells of Patti, Sarah Bernhardt and Schumann-Heink look like hasty decisions...
...Maurice Schumann, head of France's progressive Catholic M. R. P. (Mouve-ment Republican-Populaire) made an extraordinary impression at Cleveland-perhaps because he is so young (35) to be a serious contender for the French presidency, perhaps because his appearance and personality so well symbolized his nation's present position. A threadbare grey jacket covered his hunched shoulders; the crystal of his wrist watch was shattered, the frame of his hornrimmed glasses was broken; he looked 20 Ibs. underweight. Yet he was vigorous, concise-and interesting. He said...