Word: matthay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stand, started doing a rushing business. The hall was London's venerable and massive National Gallery, whose thousands of priceless canvases were long since taken from their frames and stored "somewhere in England." Famed British Pianist Myra Hess and her teacher, 81-year-old Tobias Matthay, thought up the cheerful idea of filling the empty, tomblike gallery with popular-priced concerts for London's war-worried workers. With the help of a redheaded British adman named Ronald Jones, they got permission from His Majesty's Office of Works to use the sacred space, announced a schedule...
Giuseppe de Lellis will give a piano recital in the Dunster House common room at 7.15 o'clock this evening. Mr. de Lellis, now resident in Cambridge, has studied at the Paris Conservatory with Isidor Philipp and in London with Tobins Matthay. The program...