Word: musician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mexico's Ambassador to the U. S., Francisco Castillo Nájera, a one time army doctor, by avocation a poet and musician, a lusty trencherman who loves life and lives it, one of the homeliest, most decorated and at times brutally outspoken of diplomats, another of the most respected for his intelligence...
...board of directors headed by rich and beauteous Mrs. Edward Morris, to the brightest prospect she has ever had. Last week when some 2,000 people poured into the hall for her opening concert, blonde, strapping Mrs. Sundstrom showed herself as good a strategist as she is musician...
...with a suave Mozart symphony and a heroic Brahms Fourth, wherein New York Times Critic Olin Downes discovered "virility, grip, lyrical opulence, and on occasion the impact of the bear's paw." Said the New York Herald Tribune's, Lawrence Oilman: "He has disclosed himself as a musician of taste and fire and intensity, electric, vital, sensitive, dynamic, experienced; as an artist who knows his way among the scores he elects to set before us, who has mastered not only his temperament but his trade...
...Station WJJD all the piano music of Bach, all the sonatas of Beethoven, in what he called a "musical marathon." Beethoven took nine weeks, Bach twelve. Two years ago Mr. Boguslawski said the music produced by most contemporary composers "gave him the hiccoughs." Fortnight ago this ebullient musician came out as a composer himself. The M. M. Cole Publishing Co. presented 20 Boguslawski piano pieces, 120 edited classics for children. Simple, but not for musical dunces, the exercises so tickled the Cincinnati Symphony's Assistant Conductor Vladimir Bakaleinikoff that he chose four of the Boguslawski compositions to orchestrate...
Like Chicago's Philip Manuel and Gavin Williamson, other skilled musical archeologists in the U. S. and Europe, Miss Pessl is a serious musician, hunts high & low for original scores of classics. To this end she imported last week 235 lb. of old music from Austria to Manhattan. Born Gabriella Pessl in Vienna 27 years ago, daughter of one of Europe's foremost beauticians, "Yella" Pessl forsook the cosmetic industry, studied the piano, then the organ, and finally began to explore the possibilities of the harpsichord and the clavichord. To combine her three interests of mountain climbing, skiing...