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...Einstein played a simple program sitting down: two movements of a Mozart sonata, an Indian song and a "Russian Dance" by Frida S. Bucky, a Bach minuet for an encore. His able accompanist-pretty Mme. Gaby Casadesus, wife of Concert Pianist Robert Casadesus (unpronounceable, rhymes roughly with "has a canoe")-rippled discreetly at the piano. Dr. Einstein proved that he could play a slow melody with feeling, turn a trill with elegance, jigsaw on occasion. The audience applauded warmly. Fiddler Einstein smiled his broad and gentle smile, glanced at his watch in fourth-dimensional worriment, played his encore, peered...
Virginia Lewis' start was much like another Philadelphia Negro's, Contralto Marian Anderson. Soprano Lewis, discovered six years ago by Contralto Anderson's accompanist, studied as best she could, earned her living as a housemaid, went on relief, finally got a WPA music-teaching job last February. One day her voice was exhibited to Samuel Rosenbaum, president of the Robin Hood Dell concerts. Mr. Rosenbaum, after launching Soprano Lewis in the Dell, vowed to get her what he called "visibility" at the White House. He got it through Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey's sister Emma...
...Among other things Mme Flagstad said that she had finally decided to take a chance on going back this April to Europe at war, to Norway, where she hoped to find some place to live quietly for a time with her 20-year-old daughter and stepsons. While her accompanist Edwin McArthur was busy denying to newspapermen rumors that she was retiring this year, Mme Flagstad herself was telling John and his mother that she longed more & more for domesticity, that she might return in the fall, but that there was an excellent chance she would...
...Denver Congregationalist minister, Edwin McArthur left a job as runner in a Denver bank to go to Manhattan, where the Juilliard Foundation had given him a scholarship to study the piano. To pay his living expenses he played accompaniments in Manhattan vocal studios. Because he was such a good accompanist, famous singers like Richard Crooks, Merle Alcock, Gladys Swarthout, John Charles Thomas hired him for concerts. Says he: "If I couldn't be a musician and a respectable citizen - by that I mean earn my own living - at the same time, I'd give up music...
McArthur's first big chance came in 1935, when Diva Kirsten Flagstad was looking around for an accompanist. He wrote her a letter, got an audition, was soon touring the world playing at her concerts. Meanwhile he had taken another bee into his bonnet. Between concerts he was hard at work in his hotel rooms studying scores, practicing how to beat time. Two years ago in Sydney, Australia, McArthur persuaded Flagstad to let him try his hand at conducting while she sang. He carried out the job like a veteran, and the Sydney critics gave him top marks. After...