Word: harpist
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...heroines (e.g., Lancelot and Guinevere), Tristan and Iseult are nearer to human than heroic size. Iseult the Fair has a whole bag of tricks up her flowing sleeves. Tristan is probably the most versatile hero of legendary history: he is not only death to dragons, but a first-rate harpist and singer and an ace huntsman and seaman. He is, notes the Encyclopaedia Britannica, "the Admirable Crichton of medieval romance [and] it must be regretfully admitted that he is also a most accomplished liar...
Just one of Camden's harps will be plucked by a man. Black-haired, excitable, French-born Carlos Salzedo, 60, is the maestro of Camden's harp school. Arturo Toscanini wanted him as first harpist in his Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and imported him to the U.S. in 1909. Salzedo is now a concert harpist, who turns pedagogue in the summer colony which he founded fifteen years ago to fill the demand for symphony orchestra harpists...
Daphne Hellman, blonde, curvilinear socialite harpist, lost a New York Court of Appeals decision in her fight for custody of her three-year-old son. Winner: the husband she divorced in 1941, Henry Adsit Bull Jr., Town & Country's playful editor...
...British last week had a choral experience which the London Times said was without parallel. It was provided in London's Royal Albert Hall by 200 U.S. Negro soldiers. With Private James McDaniel of Kansas City leading them, plucking tones from the bright-buttoned chests like a harpist, they surged through the classic spirituals and the exacting Ballad for Americans. They topped off with McDaniel's own "I see trouble in the air, there must be a God somewhere. All over the world, there is trouble in the air, there must be a God somewhere...
...hours before the concert the orchestra found itself with no instruments, scores, music stands or dress suits. The lady harpist had no evening gown...