Word: waldstein
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...week, as a small, dark-haired woman deposited her mink coat and shawl on a stage table, set up her metronome, covered her shoulders with a sweater, and sat down at the concert grand. For the next two hours she worked from page to page of Beethoven's "Waldstein" Sonata, starting at dead-slow tempo, one hand at a time, working up to half tempo, patiently repeating certain figures again and again, uncovering little melodies hidden in the passagework, testing the spaces between chords for the precise measure of silence. Finally, humming cheerfully to herself, she went back...
...where her fans were so mu sic hungry that extra chairs had to be put on the stage for the audience. Dressed in regal black, Pianist Novaë's floated her music from the first pearly notes of a Bach-Siloti Prelude, gathered excitement with Beethoven's "Waldstein" and steeped Schumann's Kinderscenen and three Chopin pieces in reflective romanticism. She wound up with three works by her prolific countryman, Villa-Lobos. When the stormy applause finally abated, Guiomar Novaë's got ready to go home for a family Christmas in São Paulo...
...named vice-president, Joseph Cooper '55 secretary, and Humphrey Fisher '55 treasurer. Other officers chosen include: Phillipe Villers '55, Political Action Chairman; Christopher Niebuhr '56, Harvard Affairs Chairman; Charles Edson '56, Membership Chairman; Anthony Beilenson '54, Public Relations Director; Lew Smith '54, Michael Jorrin '54, Gordon Graham '55, Peter Waldstein '55, members at large...
Beethoven's "Waldstein" and "Appassionata" Sonatas are two of those pieces which every pianist plays, but few can play well. Paul Knudson '53, tried them both last night, with only moderate success...
Despite his technical proficiency, the Eliot House junior failed to produce the singing tones so essential in music of this kind. Particularly in the third movement of the "Waldstein," he did not do full justice to the poetic thematic material because of his brittle tone and inept pedaling. Knudson's big trouble is a simple case of artistic immaturity, and this is understandable. He has been playing for less than five years, and is subject to the usual difficulties of inexperienced musicians. His tendency to play the fast parts too fast, to over-pedal, and to ignore the composer...