Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beethoven: Concerto No. 4 (Guiomar Novaes, piano, with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Otto Klemperer conducting; Vox, 2 sides LP). Even those who prefer the old Schnabel versions will have to concede that Madame Novaes, a pianist in the same grand tradition, has something to say. Recording: somewhat harsh...
Chopin: Nocturnes (Artur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor, 4 sides LP). Chopin has always been Rubinstein's dish; in this new recording of all 19 nocturnes, he performs memorably. Recording: excellent...
...with the melodies from more than 2,000 songs and scores of gushing, Viennese-style operettas; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in his hotel suite in Manhattan. An immigrant from Hungary, he started out at 22 in a Manhattan pencil factory at $7 a week, advanced to a pianist's job in a Second Avenue cafe at a salary of $15 plus all the goulash he could eat. Before long he was writing tunes for his own orchestra, caught the attention of Broadway's Shuberts, who asked him to write a musical. The Whirl of the World...
...diners began to crowd in, the orchestra--a trumpeter, drummer, pianist, and an accordian player--accompanied their progress with some thumpy renditions of familiar tunes. One of the selections was the "Donkey Serenade," but the Republicans did not seem to notice this. But at 7:14 the head table of dignatories began to march in, and to the tune of "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here," Charles Francis Adams, Sinclair Weeks, Senators Saltonstall and Lodge, Robert Montgomery, and Senator Richard M. Nixon of California, among others, took their places...
...musical program began with "Concerto Per Due Pianoforti Soli," by Stravinsky. It was followed by songs by Berlioz, and by excerpts from "Lea Jeux d'Enfants," by Bizet. Assisting artists were: Patricia Neway, mezzo-soprano, Arthur Gold, pianist, Robert Fizdale, pianist, and John La Montaine, accompanist...