Music: Arrau Makes Hay

When Pianist Claudio Arrau wound up his third U.S. tour and boarded a Pan American Clipper for Puerto Rico last week, he had made plenty of hay in a shining sun.

For a long time the weather had been against him. When the dapper Chilean pianist arrived in the U.S. last fall, he was just another paid hand in the crowded concert field. A brilliant Carnegie Hall recital last November turned the trick. He was snapped up for concert dates; nine-tenths of them were sellouts. He went to Boston in January to appear...

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