Word: accompanists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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...
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...
...that has more than two songs by living composers-but not 44-year-old Janet Fairbank. In eight New York concerts she has given more than 100 songs by some two dozen composers their first performance. She gets pieces still in manuscript, spends all summer studying them with an accompanist. ("You have to practice them until it seems as easy as Schubert.") A year ago every song Janet Fairbank sang was purchased by publishers the morning after the recital. This year the publishers didn't wait. They bought almost her entire program before the recital...
...entertainment world, he handled songs like "John Henry," "The Foggy Foggy Dew," and "The Outskirts of Town" in easygoing style, though he had no microphone. Between his song groups, Josephine Premice did Haitian dances and sang quite nicely, thriving on the almost overly enthusiastic drumming of her accompanist...