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Famed in Chicago is Pianist Moissaye Boguslawski for the muff which he wears in winter to protect his talented fingers from the stiffening cold of Lake Michigan's bitter breezes (see cut). Another stunt of "Bogie" Boguslawski was to play for Chicago's Station WJJD all the piano music of Bach, all the sonatas of Beethoven, in what he called a "musical marathon." Beethoven took nine weeks, Bach twelve. Two years ago Mr. Boguslawski said the music produced by most contemporary composers "gave him the hiccoughs." Fortnight ago this ebullient musician came out as a composer himself...
Such a flood of desk work will not separate "Bogie" Boguslawski from a keyboard which he keeps in an almost constant state of agitation by teaching 250 pupils, performing in numerous concerts and broad casts. Once a protégé of the late Publisher William Rockhill Nelson of the Kansas City Star, Mr. Boguslawski learned what makes a news story from his patron. When straight news about himself is scarce, "Bogie" is likely to come forth with such a project as his proposal to promote world peace through voice culture, since animosity arises when unpleasant tones are heard...
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