Word: accompanists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaper, executed some amusing place-cards for the occasion. After dinner the girls had the opportunity of meeting their guests informally in the living-room. Ruth Finke, Kitty Reumann, Elsie Koeliner, Jane Staiger and your columnist performed some songs written to order by your columnist. Betty Etrachan was the accompanist. One in particular was rendered with deep feeling...
Cost of a Manhattan recital, complete with trimmings, is between $700 and $1,200, less the generally negligible box-office take. For this figure a recitalist gets a piano, publicity, tickets, an accompanist (if he needs one), and the services (at a 20% rake-off) of an established musical manager, and a first-class hall. (Carnegie, on the Philharmonic's off nights, rents for $400; Town Hall, a few blocks downtown, for $300; smaller auditoriums at $75 a night & up.) The manager, if he is a good one. has already booked halls for the most desirable dates...
...thoroughly enjoyable sixty-five minutes. Despite sundry sepia entertainers from the Duke's revue, "Jump for Joy," the band itself was, as always, the big news, whether showing off its soloists or weaving a subdued and subtle background to a vocal refrain. Miss Waters was very good, special accompanist and all, but on at least one occasion I found myself trying to hear what Lawrence Brown's trombone was doing in the offing...
...Wallace Woodworth the club's present conductor became its accompanist in 1920, his Freshman year. He was appointed assistant conductor in 1927, and assumed full control...
...disappearing on long weekends to Palm Springs and Agua Caliente, and Mack Sennett hired him to act in some movie shorts. Prohibition booze gave him laryngitis which muffled his voice to a whisper, and he received a $3,000-a-week radio contract. Eddie Lang, his best friend and accompanist, died, and Bing wound up making pictures for Paramount. He seemed listless, but his income always increased...