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Marx overreacts. But if he exaggerated Wednesday night, if a brassy harshness seemed sometimes out of place (as in the second movement of the Wolpe Sonata), the artistry of his technique and aptness of his musical sense overcame the initial resistance of all but the most stolid in Wednesday night's audience...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Josef Marx Recital | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

...heard much about movies like Breath-Death, Cosmic Ray, and Stone Sonata, but now the Ford Foundation has begun pouring tuns of gold on the happy heads of the people who made them. The foundation has decided to encourage the art of film as practiced by lone stylists whose pictures are usually brief, almost always 16-mm., and sometimes comprehensible only to themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Year of Our Ford | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

...starts to play. As each key hits a note it acquires a color as well, until the whole keyboard looks like a Mediterranean awning. D'Avino goes on coloring everything in sight, including the punched-out player roll itself. The colors grow and move quite magically. In Stone Sonata, he moves stones around a stream bed, coloring them as he goes along in varied patterns that suggest the work of a Hopi Indian, always shooting a frame at a time, creating an imaginative suggestion of stones alive in nature, a reason-be-damned admixture of the commonplace with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Year of Our Ford | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

...first recordings of Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata, three Debussy Preludes, Chopin's Scherzo No. 1 and two Etudes (Columbia), Horowitz plays with heart on sleeve, spinning out a range of emotion beyond his earlier reach. His rapport with Chopin and Debussy is especially strong, but he plays Beethoven with glee and understanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 6, 1964 | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

LEON FLEISHER (Epic) and SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (Angel) have both recorded Schubert's Wanderer Fantasia and Sonata in A Major, and the results are surprisingly equal. The music is right down Richter's alley, but Fleisher approaches it with ease and style and seems almost the peer of Russia's master pianist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 6, 1964 | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

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