Word: hofmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recitalist gravely bows and sails into Beethoven and Brahms, the hall may be thronged with applauding listeners. But the intake at the box office usually runs somewhere from $6.50 to a few hundred dollars. Concert names that are big enough to draw real money in Manhattan (Rachmaninoff, Menuhin, Kreisler, Hofmann) can be counted on ten fingers. Even famed Violinist Joseph Szigeti netted a mere $200 on a last year's Manhattan recital...
...money-making record embraces three firsts: 1) grandest grand total: close to $5,000,000; 2) biggest single season's earnings: $500,000 (for 1922-23); 3) alltime record for a single concert: $33,000 (in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden). Only two other pianists, Rachmaninoff and Hofmann, have topped the million mark, and only five violinists: Kreisler, Heifetz, Elman, Menuhin, Zimbalist. All the rest are singers...
Sopranos Lucrezia Bori, Alma Gluck, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Luisa Tetrazzini; Tenors Richard Crooks, Tito Schipa; Baritone Antonio Scotti; Basso Feodor Chaliapin; Pianist Josef Hofmann...
...Jeane Hofmann (born Margaret Jeane-Marie), 22, is a tall, pretty blonde who always wanted to do "something different." In Florida last week she was doing...
Such, or thereabouts, is Artur Rubinstein, Polish prodigy who has been a professional pianist for 42 of his 53 years. He is now on a 25-week tour. For pianistic form and box-office appeal, Rubinstein rates with the best of them-polished Josef Hofmann (56 years at the keyboard); titanic Sergei Rachmaninoff; glittering Vladimir Horowitz; sober Artur Schnabel; suave Walter Gieseking (now in Switzerland); rippling-fingered Moriz Rosenthal, 79-year-old pupil of Liszt...