Word: harpist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from ten to twelve cellists, from eight to twelve contrabassists., It must have one piccolo player, two flutists, two oboists, an English-horn player, two clarinetists, a bass clarinetist, two bassoonists, a contrabassoonist, four or five horn players, three trumpeters, three trombonists, a tuba player, a kettledrummer, and a harpist. Each of these musical specialists is indispensable to the proper functioning of the mechanism. A symphony orchestra without a kettledrummer, for instance, is about as helpless as a car without a carburetor...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra is on tour this week, but some of its members, led by its distinguished harpist, Bernard Zighera, are to give a most interesting chamber music concert in Jordan Hall on Tuesday evening. The program opens with a Sinfonie for Grand Orchestra (two violins, viola, bass, two oboes, two horns, two trumpets and tympani) written by the late eighteenth century Rhenish composer, Henri Joseph Riegel. Following this, there is to be a work by Daniel-Lesur, a member of the modern "La Jeune France" group, which is entitled "Five Interludes for Four Horns." The remainder of the program...
Negro Composer William Grant Still's dull, pretentious Ebon Chronicle followed, then Van Phillips' saucy, syncopated fugue called Thank You, Mr. Bach and a harp solo of the St. Louis Blues by World's Hottest Harpist Casper Reardon. Biggest hit of the day was All Points West by Rodgers & Hart. Here, against a tragic throbbing of strings and weird wind effects, Baritone Raymond Middleton Jr. called trains, recited the cynical, sentimental, sniggering thoughts of a train announcer, was unexpectedly shot by a stray bullet...
Nowadays the San Carlo master rarely travels with the performers, prefers to drop in on them when least expected. On one such occasion he arrived in New Orleans during a matinee, met the company harpist ambling along the streets. The player tried to explain that the opera was Rigoletto, that the score calls for no harp. But Gallo was not to be placated. He saw to it that for the Rigolettos thereafter the harpist went into the pit, played...
Dining in a Chatham, Ont. hotel, Composer Sigmund Romberg took a fancy to the hotel harpist, asked her to play Deep in My Heart from his Student Prince. The harpist did not know it. Could she play his Only a Rose? No. His Auf Wiedersehen? No. Composer Romberg ripped off his collar, autographed it, thrust it at the harpist, finished his dinner collarless...