Show C MUSIC MUSIC I Lympany Scores With Debussy Debusy ft l By JIM FITZPATRICK always ways a pleasure to see a girl and if it she plays the well she's an addition to any ig g. g Moura Mour Lympany under Music sponsorship played Monday night and she is a looking oking girl C program brooked no no com com- se That Is to say she shed d 1 things she knew and not the slightest sacrifice to taste why is it that always is made to like a bunch of louts louts' Miss any iny ny paid a compliment to I rIte ake audiences for her pro- pro I kwas was as good fresh flesh and with- with it t is known as the artists artist's last night nig-ht was first the h tt impressionists and then Chopin I may as RS well start from h. h Miss Lympany first the Chromatic Fantasy gue tigue of Johann Sebastian Sebastiani i She played it like it was a of German lieder The i ih h i of at it the depth of It and i I escaped her She I to o develop a 3 singing tone tonet t t and the result wasn't very I When the pic young lady swung I in into to Chopin she showed all the signs of a rate first-rate pianist The Polish composers composer's first scherzo the theone theone theone one with an appealing ng and rend pathetic middle section in tenths received a delicate firm and altogether ether unsentimental rendering tendering which Is the only way to p play ay such music prone as it is to an obvious sort of self Miss Lympany gained stature as she went along first among the preludes and then into a judicious I selection of etudes In the third of the preludes that she played No 13 she foxed nearly everybody everybody everybody every every- body when she refused to mush it up Any number of young pianists when faced with this work think its an invitation to emote like a corps of little Evas on the Ice Chopin was wa certainly no dummy and he no doubt saw the dangers I He wrote this prelude for intelligent intelligent intelligent intelli intelli- gent musicians like Miss Lympany Among the etudes she played it seems to me she did the best with the Ule in C minor Where the pianist really got going Monday night however was among the French impressionists Her alternate brilliant and dark shading In Debussy's Goldfish and The Joyous Island didn't leave anything to complain about And her perfect sympathy with that composers composer's aims alms Ravels Ravel's too in his Toccata made these pieces the cen center er of her program Where with the older musicians her exquisite it touch Jouch might be bethought bethought bethought thought slightly sli fearful with these Uiese masters of nuances it underlined meanings and highlighted c charms arms two qualities which are all aU too rare among the earnest young musicians musicians musicians musi musi- of the day Special attention must be called to the in C Major by This is a brittle witty sophisticated p pie piece i e c e designedly naive and by its nature a pitfall for brash young pianists Miss Lympany didn't bite She was as cool as crisp and as elegant as I her composer and the was wasa a minor triumph Miss Lympany concluded with Three Fantastic Dances by and a Capriccio by t the h e Hungarian Neither of these measured up to the French works but the fault is largely with the composers |