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Organ Music (Sun. 9:15 a.m., CBS). Bach's "Saint Ann" Prelude and "Saint Ann" Fugue, Dobbelsteen's Fourth Impromptu, Galliard's Sonata for Bassoon and Keyboard, No. 1. Organist: E. Power Biggs. Bassoonist: Raymond Allard...
...making his postwar debut. Cortot played the piano and the audience made the noise. The orchestra refused to accompany him, walked off stage. "Collaborationist!" yelled some of the audience. "Vive Cortot!" shouted others. Competing choruses of praise and damnation drowned out the music. Cortot grimly stuck to his keyboard, kept playing through the hubbub, finally won silence. At concert's end: an ovation...
...interesting gadget now being installed in communications companies' offices the world over is the automatic teletype printer-a kind of typewriter-substitute for the time-honored telegrapher's key. You can type out a message on the keyboard, have it automatically transmitted overseas by radio or cable circuits to come out in print on a teletype at the other...
...Once in a hotel in Birmingham, he told a Negro maid that his dummy keyboard (for limbering up between concerts) was a holy piano whose music could be heard only by the pure and sinless. Then he ran off a long, soundless glissando. When he looked up, the maid had disappeared...
...even greater feat was attempted in Carnegie Hall in 1924 by a double threat musician named Paul Stassévitch, who fiddled through Brahms's Violin Concerto in D Major, then shifted to the keyboard for Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor. The critics shuddered...