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Concert artists, like dogs, always grow to resemble their patrons. Most of today's (examples: Gieseking, Casadesus, Heifetz, Serkin) resemble bank presidents or New Deal intellectuals. Most of yesterday's (examples: Paderewski, de Pachmann) resembled haughty princes of the blood. One lordly, athletic survivor of the time when artists wore the royal purple is orange-whiskered Polish Pianist Moriz Rosenthal, pupil of Franz Liszt, who in Manhattan last week was recovering from his 80th birthday celebration...
Died. Vladimir de Pachmann, 84, famed Russian pianist; peacefully, of pneumonia; in Rome, Italy. After 70 he worked out a new piano technique (straight arm from elbow to knuckle). Amazement at his own mastery marred his concerts ("Bravo! Bravo!" "You never heard anything like this." "Terrible! I will do better tomorrow."), drew crowds. Declaiming, gibbering, playing to a pile of unset jewels on the piano end, once to a pair of socks, bouncing on the piano stool, his shows were fine pianizing or fine Pachmannizing. Specialty: Chopin. A nickname (by the late James Gibbons Huneker) : "The Chopinzee...
Having happened to read in TIME, April 9, that my father, Vladimir de Pachmann the pianist, is a Jew, and that assertion being quite inexact, I beg you to rectify that error as soon as possible (if possible in the next issue of your magazine...
LIONEL DE PACHMANN Composer, teacher and musical critic Paris, France...
Ossip Gabrilowitsch Vladimir De Pachmann...