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Speck of Humanity. The overflow crowd in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall burst into applause when Violinist Oistrakh stepped from the wings. Then he and his longtime accompanist, Vladimir Yampolsky, began Beethoven's Sonata, Op. 12, No. 1. The whole first movement went by, muddled by Carnegie's overrated acoustics -or because of a debutant's jitters-before Oistrakh began to project the full voltage of his enormous musicianship...
Among members of the group were G. Wallace Woodworth '24, who served as assistant accompanist, and Virgil Thomson...
...directed at Ruth's employers, and the combination of her talent and his tan trums boosted her earnings from $25 to $2,500 a week. After 17 years of his table-thumping furies, Ruth asked for a divorce. Snyder's reaction was typical: correctly suspecting that her accompanist, Myrl Alderman, was the man she really loved, Snyder shot and wounded Alderman...
...felt that the Glee Club would he exhausted by this week's four performances of the B-minor Mass, and that, considering general exams and our other heavy commitments, we could not ask the members to sing next Friday. Furthermore, our accompanist had a prior commitment...
...Kirsten Flagstad, 59, who interrupted her retirement to give a pair of concerts in Carnegie Hall and proved that she was still the greatest Wagnerian soprano of all. With the Symphony of the Air (formerly the NBC Symphony) under the direction of her longtime Accompanist Edwin Mc-Arthur, she sang four Wagner selections. Her voice had undeniably lost some of its freshness, but none of its security. She sang meltingly in two arias from Die Walkiire and the five Wesendonck Songs, with eloquence and sensuousness in the Love Death from Tristan. There was ringing power (even on her high...