Word: monath
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Married. Ira Arthur Hirschmann. 35, vice president of Saks-Fifth Avenue (Manhattan department store); to Pianist Hortense Monath, 29. with whose aid Hirschmann launched the New Friends of Music (TIME, Nov. 15); by New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, in Miss Monath's Manhattan apartment...
Much of the Friends of Music's artistic excellence, and much of its almost vestal atmosphere, is the work of a dark-haired, dark-eyed pianist who took part in last Sunday's opener-Hortense Monath, 29. In her native Newark, N. J., Hortense Monath took slight interest in piano practice until she was twelve, was not much keener about it until, on her 16th birthday, she heard Schnabel play. Then, she says, "I grew up in one day." Schnabel, who had learned Latin from her father, took Pianist Monath as pupil, still coaches her although she made...
...Pianist Monath collaborated with Ira Hirschmann from the founding of the New Friends, last week was about to become his bride. The programs which she planned for him last year bore heavily on Brahms, emphasized the evolution of Beethoven's musical thought, showed the place of the piano in chamber music. In planning this year's programs, Pianist Monath performed the notable feat of reading through the massive tome, Chronologisch-systematisches Verzeichnis sammtlicher Tonwerke Mozarts, by Dr. Ludwig Ritter von Kochel, who patiently numbered each & every one of Mozart's voluminous works. She emerged with such rarities...