If Winter Comes
| HAVE a drawing of Harriet Cohen by Edmond X. Kapp, which shows a smoky-dark, intellectual beauty with ethereal hands, surrounded by daffodils and daisies. This suggestion of femininity is belied by her playing, which is so dexterous as to suggest the flexible steel wrist and the muscles of whipcord, Yet her Mozart Sonata in C from 4YO was so fresh and charming that the aura of springtime was appropriate enough. If the history of piano music may attempt a comparison with the seasons, surely Haydn and Mozart are its Spring, whose fresh green will never fade. Bach and Beethoven are its magnificent Summer flowering, Chopin and Schumann its fruitful but somewhat over-ripe Autumn, leading into the frosted Winter of the modern intellectuals, followed by what? A resurrection, a resurgence, another Spring?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 286, 15 December 1944, Page 8
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134If Winter Comes New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 286, 15 December 1944, Page 8
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