Word: musician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henderson came by his music naturally. His father was a theatrical producer who put on U. S. premières of Gilbert & Sullivan at the old Fifth Avenue Theatre. Ettie Henderson, his mother, was an ac tress, playwright and musician. She taught her son to sing and play when he was only seven...
...TIME occasionally given over to Jazz is all right, but not always well informed. For instance in the current issue there is quite a piece about a piano player named Raymond Scott, who has recorded, among others. Powerhouse, Toy Trumpet, Reckless Night Aboard an Ocean Liner. Also about another musician who will make Merry Widow on a Spree, Dizzy Debutante, Lullaby to a Lamp Post, Ode to an Old Coat Sleeve...
...onetime professional musician, Max Adler joined Sears, Roebuck as a buyer of musical merchandise, became vice president before he retired in 1928. He also was stirred by something he saw in Munich-a planetarium. When he gazed at the great Zeiss projector with its twinkling knobs, and at the wheeling panorama of the skies on the vault overhead, he determined that Chicagoans should have access to the same experience, laid out $500,000 for the Adler Planetarium, first in the U. S. Mr. Adler still drops around frequently to see how things are going, is eminently pleased with the planetarium...
...Guten Morgen, I am glad to know you. Won't you come in?" The two moved into the living room, where the visitor's eyes immediately rested upon the piano. Schumann hastened to ask: "Won't you please play something of your own composition?" Without more encouragement the gauche musician sat down and began to play his C major Sonata. Before he had proceeded far, his host cried: "Wait, Gott im Himmel, Clara must listen to this...
...Charlotte. He would have married Mme Dumas, about whom Mr. Muggeridge tells an incredibly scandalous story; but she herself did not wish it, because under the terms of her husband's will she would have forfeited her income. Henry Festing Jones was not "one Festing Jones," but a musician of some distinction and the author of Butler's biography-a first-class work that was given the James Tait Black prize for the best biography of its year. He also wrote two valuable books on Sicily. Butler took issue with Darwin on no trivial point of evolutionary dogma...