On the recital program which Pianist José Iturbi played in Manhattan last week a composer with the prosaic name of Bennett kept company with Haydn, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt. Haydn and Schumann provided meaty sonatas for impish Iturbi to play in his neat, polished style. Chopin and Brahms showed him expertly romantic. Liszt exercised his strong, fleet fingers. But none of these great ones overshadowed the man named Bennett. He contributed four miniature studies, descriptions of sights he had seen in Paris. They were so vivid and neatly wrought that listeners could fairly...
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