Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beethoven: Sonata in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2 (Byron Jam's, pianist; Victor, 2 sides LP). Young (22) Pianist Janis, protege of Vladimir Horowitz, speeds through this stormy sonata ("Tempest") with much 'of the diamond-hard brilliance of his mentor. Recording: good...
...about a French district attorney whose wife caries on a forty-eight hour affair with a pianist she has met on a train. There is some nuzzling in the rain, a great deal of obtrusive, Rachmaninofflike music, and the D. A. gets his wife back...
When Russian-born Simon Barere made his U.S. debut in 1936, he was hailed as "a pianist of the first rank." He had everything-thunder, poetry, brilliance and dazzling speed. But somehow Simon Barere, a man with little flair for the limelight, failed to catch the fancy of the crowds...
Last week, in the wings at Carnegie Hall, smiling Pianist Barere confided to Eugene Ormandy: "When I played with Pierre Monteux [at Lewisohn Stadium last summer], he told me, 'I hope this won't be the last time we play together.' May I say the same thing to you now?" Ormandy smiled in gracious agreement...
...Brightest?" Greenewalt came naturally by his scientific bent. His father, Dr. Frank Greenewalt, was resident physician at Philadelphia's Girard College. His mother, the former Mary Elizabeth Hallock, was a concert pianist, and patented her own invention, the use of varicolored lighting to harmonize with the moods of music. Both parents were old friends of Wilmington's Du Ponts; Mrs. Greenewalt's sister, Ethel Hallock, had married William K. du Pont, brother of Pierre, Lammot...