Piano Playing as an Art
OCELYN WALKER’S Debussy and Chopin recital from 1YA on April 6 was piano-playing quite out of the ordinary. I am quite sure that for many of the pianists we hear, the piano is an ideal vehicle (I use the word advisedly) for exhibitionism. Their playing is an exercise in more senses than one, and if poundage was the test of success, most of them would win, hands down. There are the others, of course, who cast out their ballast of eroticism in a thick flow of sentimentality. For all of these the piano is at best a pleasant accomplishment, and, at the worst, one of the seven deadly dins. Miss Walker’s playing, one need hardly say, is in neither of these classes. She obviously regards piano playing as an art. One’s ears were grateful for the sensitive tonal gradations in the Debussy, the clear note articulation, and the intelligent phrasing.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 356, 18 April 1946, Page 14
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155Piano Playing as an Art New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 356, 18 April 1946, Page 14
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