Word: harpist
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...orchestra is unique this summer not only for its large content of clarinets and flutes, but also because the Summer School girls have invaded this traditionally male group for the first time. Moreover, it has piano talent far in excess of usability, and it has on tap a harpist with whom it will rehearse shortly. The weakness of the orchestra lies in a lack of double-basses, only one being now available...
...working at a rolltop desk in a mousy Broadway office building. He pays no fancy salaries: minimum for principals is $40 a performance. On the road, San Carlo's orchestra numbers only 23, the total company 100-odd. Expense-conscious Fortune Gallo once spied the orchestra's harpist strolling down the street while a Rigoletto performance was going on, angrily inquired why he was not in the pit. To the harpist's reply that Rigoletto has no harp part, Gallo mumbled, "I'm not paying a harpist to walk the streets," ordered a harp part written...
...Author. This is apparently the case with Miss Baum herself. Only child of Viennese bourgeois, Vicki Baum (real name: Hedwig) started writing when she was 14-surreptitiously, for her father disapproved of authors (he still does). She was also an ace harpist, gave up music when she married Richard Lert, who later conducted the orchestra of the Berlin State Opera Co. During the war she was, like Marion, a nurse; but "we didn't have these uniforms the women are wearing here now; soldiers needed them...
Died. Maud Morgan, 77, longtime leading U.S. harpist, believed to be the first harpist to solo on the U.S. concert stage; on Staten Island, N.Y. She made her debut in 1875, gave concerts in the U.S. and in Europe for more than 50 years...
...with some of the flavor of the great French comedian Raimu. Except for him the production was mediocre and seemed more a recitation that a serious attempt to capitalize on the analogies of the Cassandra story to the present day. Music for the performance was ably provided by a harpist but the meant-to-be-moving "Hymn to Apollo" fell miserably flat...