Word: franz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Piano Co. factories. The Knabe is the official piano of the Metropolitan Opera Company; Jeritza, Ponselle, Titta Ruffo use it. Moiseiwitsch, Bauer, Ravel endorse Mason & Hamlin. The Chickering advertises itself as "essentially a piano for the home," is the oldest in the U. S.. was the favorite of Franz Liszt.* And almost all great pianists have made music rolls for the Ampico reproducing grands, which are also an American Piano Co. product. None would therefore deny (although they might prefer others; that American Piano Co. pianos are good pianos...
...when Franz Joseph Haydn's Farewell symphony had its first performance before Hungarian Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, some one had the idea of keeping the audience in darkness, giving each musician a candle of his own to snuff at the concert's close. In Cincinnati Conductor Fritz Reiner often exhibits a penchant for the historical.* Last week he attempted to duplicate the first candlelit concert but modernized methods boggled the illusion. The candles were electric, behaved accordingly. 'Cellist Desire Danczowski's flame flickered, threatened to quit before the end; 'Cellist Walter Hermann's balked when...
...honors at the Valencia and Paris Conservatories but today he says that he has learned most by listening. At 24, while playing in a Zurich café, he was asked to go to the Geneva Conservatory as head of the piano faculty, a post once held by the great Franz Liszt. He accepted, stayed in Geneva for four years, then embarked on a concert career with immediate success...
...Merry Widow first appeared in Manhattan in 1907, was last revived in 1921. The Widow of the present revival is a comely Dutchwoman, Beppie de Vries, who sings Franz Lehar's score considerably better than the rest of the cast and wheels through the famed waltz with the requisite abandon...
...Memoirs, then takes the wind out of his hero's sails by pointing out, at the end of each chapter, the biggest whoppers. But Author Endore, a good Casanovist, is a sympathetic interpreter. This is the first of his books. He has translated from the German Franz Blei's Fascinating Women, Hans Heinz Ewers' Alraune (TIME...