Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Debussy: Images, Books I & II (Claudio Arrau, pianist; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Debussy's subtle sonorities and shimmering colors are a challenge to any pianist. Arrau meets the challenge brilliantly and with apparent ease. Recording: excellent...
...Seventh Veil," Ann Todd portrays a concert pianist who, after a long period of intense training by her cousin-guardian Nicholas (James Mason), succumbs to a neurotic illness. Miss Todd manages to put across many different ages, moods, and attitudes smoothly; she can shift from the coquettish to the depressed with no difficulty, and uses both facial and bodily movement to advantage. Mason is as gutturally crisp as ever, and avoids over-suppressing his emotions, which is a common fault in such cynical roles...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 1 p.m., CBS). Soloist: Pianist Eugene List...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 1 p.m., CBS). Soloist: Pianist Myra Hess...
Died. Eddy (Edwin Frank) Duchin, 41, pianist-orchestra leader of radio, screen and ballroom, famed for his frilly "society" style; of leukemia, on the day the Navy awarded him a citation for meritorious service in World War II; in Manhattan. Son of a Boston druggist, Duchin disappointed his father by not sticking to the family business. His first wife, Socialite Marjorie de Loosey Oelrichs, died in 1937, six days after giving birth to a son. In 1947 he married Maria Teresa Paske-Smith Winn, daughter of a British diplomat...