Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debut in Manhattan in 1888, the audience applauded and shouted so wildly that it had to be forcibly calmed by police. (Almost unnoticed in the excitement was another musician making his U.S. debut on the same program: a 13-year-old Viennese violinist billed as Master Fritz Kreisler.) Rosenthal's grand manner meant first-rate playing, but it also had plenty of the showman in it. Once, in Cincinnati, he played Liszt's Don Juan Fantaisie so thunderously that a piano leg fell off. As Rosenthal described it: "I had to play without the pedals. I finalized...
Showman AND Musician...
...hope it won't be too much of a shock to Personality "Cugie" [TIME, July 29] to know that I go to hear Iturbi because he's a fine musician...
...even greater feat was attempted in Carnegie Hall in 1924 by a double threat musician named Paul Stassévitch, who fiddled through Brahms's Violin Concerto in D Major, then shifted to the keyboard for Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor. The critics shuddered...
...World to Win takes Presidential Agent Lanny Budd, a peripatetic pink who poses as a fascist, from the fall of France through the U.S. declaration of war. Lanny is a spy, plutocrat (son of a munitions magnate), sociologist, art expert, musician, "psychical researcher" and avid reader of Bluebook magazine-all in a handy, handsome, 6-ft. package...