No Luck, Girls
After the intermission during
which the young ladies of St.
Anne's vainly went scouting
around, Mr. Dichter came back to
perform the final work on the
program, Moussorgsky's "Pictures
at an Exhibition" which is a
musical tour de force and which
proved to be the highlight of the
recital. Although most listeners are
only familiar with this work, as an
orchestral piece of music, it
nevertheless was originally written
for the piano. In the opinions of
some critics, it is too massive for
the piano, but this certainly did not
seem so when Mr. Dichter
performed it.
In performing the impression.
"The Witches' Revelry," the pianist
had his hands virtually flying all
over the keyboard. The last
impression, "The Great Gate of
Kiev," proved to be a grand finale
with its impressive heavy block
chords.
Mr. Dichter received a standing
ovation after which he returned to
play a work by Chopin and one by
Liszt as an encore. Mr. Dichter is
without doubt, a pianist of the first
degree, and to be sure the
University Union was most
fortunate in getting him for the
University or St. Anne's or for
Charlottesville or whatever.
