Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first scene by the fantastic means she uses for walking in on a conventional British family having tea in a rented Venetian Palace. She arrives with a party of touring schoolchildren, runs upstairs to hide when the teacher calls the roll. From there on, her career with her musician (Hugh Sinclair) is a series of crises separated only by stretches in which Gemma is trying to straighten out the romance between the musician's more responsible brother and the girl whose parents she met in the palace. She quarrels bitterly with her lover on a hotel terrace...
Years ago most European performers learned about rubles and today play Russia only when they can get no other engagement or want to enjoy for a few weeks the ovations always given by Soviet audiences to any singer, actor, musician or clown from "outside...
Inventor was Laurens Hammond, quiet, hard-working head of Hammond Clock Co. of Chicago. Inventor Hammond has tinkered with electricity since he left Cornell in 1916. Though no bridge player, he invented a few years ago an electrical bridge table which shuffles and deals the cards. Though no musician, he saw that a pipeless organ would have many a practical advantage. Pipes require space, are expensive to install. Usually they anchor an organ for life, and changes in temperature will set them out of tune...
...horn playing to the necessity of passing ' breath "evenly through some 16 feet of tubing, a matter of sustaining tone, a more fundamental problem is that of even starting the designated tone owing to the multiplicity of overtones which may accidentally take precedence. Turning to the two woodwind musicians to whom you refer as "oboe players," actually only one ot them is playing the oboe. The other is playing the English horn, readily distinguished from the oboe by the metal pipe extension of the reed mouthpiece and the wider spacing of keys. Incidentally this musician gives a fair illustration...
...family comfortable, enabled him to take the stand that no son of his should ever be exploited as a prodigy. Vladimir's schooling was to last until he was 24-until the Revolution interfered. The family lost its home, its money, even the piano from which the young musician could rarely be pried. An uncle who was a music critic arranged for his first public appearance in 1922. Year after, Vladimir played 70 concerts in Russia, 23 in Leningrad alone where he was paid in flour & butter as often as in rubles...