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...International Festival in Besangon, France. To keep the date, he overrode his doctor's and his wife's pleas not to play, was fortified with drugs. Close to fainting at the keyboard, he had to omit the last brief selection on the program, Chopin's Waltz No. 2 in A Flat. Now, in a 2-LP Angel album, record buyers can listen to that last amazing recital and sample the artistry that made Lipatti one of the finest pianists of the postwar generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lipatti's Last | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...Nashville's Grand Ole Opry expect to peddle their wares to the corn belt.and let the pop world go by. Although the kind of music they sing on the granddaddy of the country radio shows has often been taken over by pop singers and made into hits (Tennessee Waltz, You Are My Sunshine), few country singers have made the pop charts on their own. But in the wake of Elvis Presley (not considered genuine country by the connoisseurs), two Nashville favorites have gone to the fore in the pop world's latest phase, "rockabilly." The successful practitioners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...Waltz That Broke My Heart (Gisele MacKenzie; Vik). Songstress Mac-Kenzie is sitting this one out, she tells the listener in her clear, unshaded voice, because the last time she attempted the waltz, it cost her that man. Her syrup-slow beat suggests that sheer lack of energy may have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

Broadway Producer Robert Whitehead (Separate Tables, Waltz of the Toreadors) is planning to bring A Touch of the Poet to Manhattan next season to make the O'Neill revival livelier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: O'Neill in Stockholm | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

Confused While Romping. "O.K., cast," bellowed the stage manager. "Positions, please, for the waltz." Dancers scurried into place under the warm floodlights. Choreographer Jonathan Lucas scampered up a ladder and called: "Pretty faces now; pretty figures, too. Do not bump the Queen, do not bump the Prince and, above all, do NOT bump Cinderella." As Cinderella and her Prince, played by Jon Cypher, a rangy (6 ft. 2 in.) young (25) newcomer from Brooklyn, moved through the dancers, Director Nelson followed closely, again imitating a camera. It was a confused yet sightly romp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Rear View | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

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