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...Goldovsky, who came to the United States in 1930, was born in Moscow, Russia. Most of his musical training was received in Europe, where he studied piano under Leonid Kreutzer, Arthur Schnabel, and Ernest Dohnanyi. He graduated from the Liszt Academy of Music, in Budapest, where he studied composition with Leo Weiner...
Said Paderewski: "When I miss practice one day, I know it; when I miss two days, my wife knows it; when I miss three days, the public knows it." When Paderewski practiced, he had no peer, and only the late, mighty Liszt and Rubinstein ever equaled him at a piano...
Before the trip, the Glee Club will sing Liszt's "Faust" in Symphony Hall with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Friday and Saturday nights. Another part of the Club will also present a concert on Friday, open to the public, in the Boston Art Museum...
Morris Bagby was one of the last links with Franz Liszt. Musician Bagby never learned from the master how to be a virtuoso pianist, but he played whist with Liszt, and like other pupils reverently snitched the hairs which drifted from Liszt's white mane to the collar of his morning coat. Morris Bagby heard Brahms play the piano, "as though he had ten thumbs." When Pianist Bagby returned to the U. S., he was invited by Julia Ward Howe to read a paper at Newport's Town and Country Club. Mrs. Howe's daughter advised...
...many as 1,800 people at a time. Once a year, $10,000 or so was raised with a concert for the Bagby Music Lovers Foundation, which gave a lift to indigent artists. Among its beneficiaries: Minnie Hauk, the first Carmen in the U. S.; Frau Richard (Cosima Liszt) Wagner, whom Morris Bagby had known in Europe; Baritone Antonio Scotti, onetime bon vivant...