Pianist/Author Eve Curie 1943 Vintage Movie

Eve Curie was the daughter of Nobel award-winning scientist Madame Curie. Eve Curie (born 1904) would gain fame on her own terms: as a concert pianist and journalist during World War II. She wrote the best selling and critically acclaimed biography of her mother "Madam Curie." This video is historically important because Ms. Curie was in the United States to lecture on her work with the Free France movement in Europe. She stayed in Cincinnati for one week at the home of my father's music teacher, Dr. Karol Liszniewski. My father is shown in the video speaking with the elegant Mll. Curie.The youngest child born to Pierre and Marie (Sklodowska) Curie, discoverers of radium and Nobel Prize recipients, Eve Curie's interests and talents were more musical, literary, and political than scientific. Encouraged by her mother, Curie developed her early skill in music, and her first career was as a concert pianist. Later she would turn her talents to writing, lecturing, and international advocacy on behalf of Free France during World War II. During the 1950s and 1960s, Curie worked for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and for the United Nations' Childrens' Fund in Greece.The music on this video I have added--from my father's playing of Rachmaninoff's Prelude in E-Flat. Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Channel: Music
Uploaded: November 25, 2006 at 4:44 pm
Author: creativebna

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