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Perky, dimpled Doriot Anthony, 30, knows as well as anybody that the major orchestras eye female instrumentalists with suspicion (unless they play the harp†). She has held such positions as second flute in Washington's National Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, first flute in the NBC Standard (Los Angeles) and Hollywood Bowl Symphonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boston Picks a Woman | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...show called Frankly Esoteric (Sun. 10 p.m.), which she thinks will appeal to no more than 2% of WNEW's listeners. Described as "the last word in avant-garde art," Frankly Esoteric offered such noncommercial items as Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans and a harp solo by Nicanor Zabaleta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Esoterica | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...Salzedo Harp Colony, in Camden, Maine, where Harpist Carlos Salzedo teaches his technique to 38 men and women in an idyllic setting. Part of the curriculum: costume and deportment so that the performers may properly grace the stage when they play in symphony orchestras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tanglewood & Other Woods | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

...Harp Music (Nicanor Zabaleta; Esoteric). Sixteenth century Spanish music of musical as well as archaic charm, and modern French and Spanish pieces, all composed originally for the harp. Zabaleta is a rarity in the flamboyant field of harpists, a miniaturist who specializes in neatness and detail. Recording: lifelike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Jul. 28, 1952 | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...Harper's Bazaar, Novelist-Playwright Truman (The Grass Harp) Capote recalled a touching secondhand memory of Greta Garbo: "I stopped by the apartment of a friend who previously that afternoon had entertained Garbo at tea. As I entered the room and started to sit down in an especially comfortable-looking chair piled with pillows, my friend, a very sane fellow, suddenly asked would I mind not using that particular chair. 'You see,' he said solemnly, 'she sat there: the dent in the little red pillow, that's where her hand rested-I should like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Inside Sources | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

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