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Brahms' chance came when a popular gypsy violinist visited Hamburg and suddenly needed an accompanist. The gypsy taught Brahms to love Hungarian dances. He introduced him to Joachim who paved the way to the famed friendship with Robert and Clara Schumann. Robert Schumann, one of the great influences of his day, preached Brahms' genius far and wide. Clara Schumann is supposed to have been Brahms' lifelong love, the inspiration of his tenderest songs. He never married...
Mary Garden at 57 must still earn a living. Wisely aware that she is peculiarly fitted for the music of Debussy, she began a Debussy concert tour last week, sang in Monrovia. Calif., later in Los Angeles. After her longtime accompanist, Jean Dansereau, had opened the program with some Debussy piano music, Mary Garden swept on the stage in her oldtime glamorous way. Her singing, as ever, was curiously uneven and husky, a weird combination of song and emotionalized speech. For sensitive listeners who could forget formal vocal technique each of her Debussy songs was a perfect blend of text...
...home Bloch learned Jewish melodies, Jewish lore. There was money enough for him to study for a time in Brussels, Frankfurt, Munich, Paris. Then his father's jewelry business soured and he went home to peddle cuckoo-clocks. In 1916 Bloch landed in the U. S., as accompanist for Maud Allen, a dancer whose tour ended disastrously in Ohio. Bloch took a room in Manhattan. He was penniless but in his trunk were the Israel Symphony, the Psalms, the Trois Poemes Juifs, Schelomo, music which the French had called too German, the Germans too French...
...Onetime Accompanist to Lawrence Tibbett...
...Johannes learned to please his father crept into the music he wrote for 50 years to follow. But it was his amazing piano repertory, compositions of his own that he had tucked away, which so impressed Eduard Remenyi. the gypsy violinist, that he engaged young Brahms to be his accompanist, introduced him to potent Violinist Joseph Joachim. Remenyi taught Brahms to love Hungarian dances. Joachim brought him to the attention of Composer Robert Schumann who just had time before his mental collapse to publicize the young Hamburger as the coming great composer...