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Actor Johnson rises brightly to the chance to display a light-comedy flair too often smothered by his material in the past. Actress Allyson's facile hands on the piano keyboard look surprisingly professional in a dubbed-in performance of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor. And the film proves the perfect outlet for the little-girlishness that sometimes cloys in her grown-up roles...
...Tatum Encores (Capitol, 6 sides 45 r.p.m.). With Sweet Lorraine, Don't Blame Me and four other standards as ammunition, Jazz Virtuoso Tatum expertly explodes his arpeggios and cadenzas all over the keyboard...
Piano Moods (Max Miller, Eadie & Rack; Columbia; 4 sides LP). Three new headliners in Columbia's program to corral the top U.S. pop pianists for its Moods series. Chicagoan Miller will please "progressives" with his tricky beat and boppish chording. Eadie and Rack's mile-a-minute keyboard calisthenics have more flash than form...
Jose Iturbi, at 55, is a pianist who is regarded by a vast public as a saint of the keyboard, by critics as a fallen angel. Twenty-two years ago, when Valencia-born Jose made his U.S. debut, there were hardly enough superlatives to fit his playing. But last March, after his first Carnegie Hall recital in six years, the same judges shook their saddened heads, damned him as a perfunctory performer. They conceded that Iturbi still had his nimble technique, delicate shadings and tone colors. But, as the Herald Tribune's Jerome D. Bohm put it, that made...
...typical Iturbi crowd-pleaser. After his first number, Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata ("a mechanical interpretation with some sweetness interpolated," said the Miami Herald), he noticed latecomers struggling for their seats. He promptly did a pantomime of launching into his second number, running his hands up & down the keyboard without touching the keys. The audience liked it so well that he d'id it again. After the concert, he signed autographs for an hour...