Word: harpist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britten: A Ceremony of Carols (the RCA Victor Chorale of Women's Voices, with Laura Newell, harpist; Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 6 sides, 45 r.p.m.). Benjamin Britten's settings of these Old English verses, some of them anonymous, are ingeniously simple and tonally beautiful. Performance and recording: excellent...
...late Joseph Brummer, a wealthy art dealer who had some 150 favorite pieces that he had refused to part with while alive. Among his prizes: a 5th Century B.C. limestone bull's head from the palace at Persepolis, and a 3000 B.C. Greek marble statuette of a harpist, that had some of the well-rubbed simplicity of British Modern Henry Moore...
Divorced. Eugene Ormandy, 47, the Philadelphia Orchestra's balding, barrel-chested maestro; by onetime Harpist Steffy Goldner Ormandy, fiftyish; after 25 years, one child; in Reno...
...sure, said one paper, there was a good harpist at the Royal Dublin Society's concert, but she was a Russian. Besides, said another, the traditional harp of the great Brian Boru had 30 strings, and this heraldic harp had only 15, for all that they were silver. And anyway, wasn't it the Sassenach heretic King Henry VIII who made the harp Ireland's official symbol in the first place when he decided that the three crowns of ancient Ireland looked too much like a Popish tiara...
Married. Edith Kingdon Gould, 25, socialite, linguist (five), ex-child poetess, harpist, actress (Agatha Christie's Hidden Horizon), former lieutenant (j.g.) in the WAVES, great granddaughter of the late railroad tycoon Jay Gould, and daughter of the late financier Kingdon Gould; and Guy Martin, 34, wartime Navy lieutenant; both for the first time; in Manhattan...