Word: wittgensteins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rapp is the latest of a grim little line of musical specialists: the one-armed pianists. Pieces for one hand used to be merely pleasant musical oddities, but forsome pianists they became necessities. In World War I a Viennese pianist named Paul Wittgenstein lost his right arm, but stubbornly refused to abandon his virtuoso career. He commissioned and performed Ravel's Concerto for Left Hand, two works by Richard Strauss, and Benjamin Britten's Diversions on a Theme. Wittgenstein (now 68 and a teacher in Manhattan) also commissioned-but never understood or played-the Prokofiev concerto that...
Having lost his right arm to shrapnel on the Russian front in World War II, Rapp heard of Wittgenstein's example,* decided to go on playing too. "With me the yearning was so great I felt I never wanted to give up." He began to study the limited repertory, began to get ahead using the Ravel concerto as a staple...
...posthumous publication of a book of Ludwig Wittenstein's lecture notes. The book, Philosophical investigations, in already being used in Harvard's course in Epistemology and should, according to Dr. Robert Ziff, instructor of Philosophy, "produce a greater orientation of Philosophy in America in regard to language." Claims Wittgenstein in Investigations: "The work of a philosopher consists of assembling reminders for a particular purpose...
Captain James Stewart, out of Hollywood stardom and into a quiet Army career eight months before Pearl Harbor, is now head of a Liberator squadron in England, will probably soon be fighting over Europe-the first Hollywood star to engage in regular combat there.*Paul Wittgenstein's piano playing and Max Reiter's conducting will be long remembered in San Antonio musical circles...
...Wittgenstein, for whom Maurice Ravel wrote his Concerto for Left Hand, is the world's N01 one-armed pianist. Conductor Reiter fractured his right foot a few days before the concert. While the pianist played left-anded, the conductor conducted left-footed, holding his game foot gingerly aloft...