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Square Bop. Least known of radio's troubadours is Dick Farney, 25, a dark-eyed Brazilian baritone whose greatest claim to fame is his invention of the phrase "square bop" (a bad accompanist with a surface sense of rhythm, who confuses crooners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Languor, Curls & Tonsils | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...made the local circuit: recitals in private homes, luncheon, solos, a formal recital in Veterans' Auditorium. In 1937 he was ready for Manhattan and Town Hall-or thought he was. Hiring the hall and paying for the trip cost his sponsor $1,500. Says Isaac: "I hired an accompanist, had three rehearsals. I should have had a tested program which I'd played on the road and had embedded in my fingertips. A concert like the one I gave is just a sales talk unless you're such a tremendous talent it sweeps everything before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Three Ps | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...gave up just before the end of Brünnhilde's ho-yo-to-ho aria when her accompanist, Edwin McArthur, fumbled. He explained that he hadn't played it for six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Flagstad Case | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...Freshman, he immediately joined the Glee Club, which had just become a major College organization under Professor "Doc" Davison. After a few weeks, he flunked his quartet trials, then as now the deciding factor in Glee Club membership; so he decided he would be an accompanist with the club. Woody delights in telling how Davison suggested that he "go play the drums in the band." Nevertheless, he must have made a moderately good accompanist, for when he graduated in 1924 he became conductor of the Radcliffe Choral Society and assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 3/28/1947 | See Source »

Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' wife, Catherine, played the piano at a benefit for Washington's National Symphony, but only as an accompanist. Soloist: the Nimitz' wonder-spaniel, Freckles, who gave Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms such a sensitive interpretation (see cut) that he had to do three encores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

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