Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being Princess Pakanli. She, with the aid of Hugh Sandidge, ,veteran operatic tenor of Memphis, Tenn., worked for two years under the most adverse conditions to get opera started in Oklahoma. She is a graduate of the New England Conservatory with a great voice and wonderful ability as a musician. I think that this makes the production of opera Oklahoma more remarkable, its being produced the first time by a native Indian. This is due her as she struggled so long to get it started...
...business: he had no use for failures, however interesting. Young John O'Shaughnessy. general handyman of the School, had enough motherwit and social presence to get along with Mr. Ganson and to steer a safe course among the shoals of Dorchester's provincial-artistic society. When Musician Arenkoff was appointed conductor of the Phil harmonic Orchestra, John was told off to help him get settled. This was a pleasant enough job, and when Arenkoffs wife Nina arrived, John adored her at sight. Nina was intense: she often wept quietly for hours because life...
...Manhattan the Philharmonic Symphony invited Iturbi to guest-conduct it in a concert in Lewisohn Stadium. Eagerly he agreed, for there is one musician in the world whom he idolizes: Arturo Toscanini. An audience that filled all but the extreme end seats turned out to see what this black-haired, electric little maestro of the piano bench could do with a baton in his hand...
...podium. During his concert tours in the U. S. since 1929 he has spent most of his spare time in New York studying orchestra scores, watching Toscanini and others conducting the Philharmonic-Symphony. Says Jose Iturbi: "I am like Diogenes. All my life I search for an honest musician. I find Arturo Toscanini." His face, always set and sober during recitals, was more so than ever while he conducted Toscanini's orchestra. Afterwards, to a group of friends who congratulated him he remarked simply: "It was like first love. There was nothing more to live...
...with Queen Elisabeth, a fellow-fiddler. Few days before L'Eventail, Brussels socialite weekly, had commented: "Mr. Morris on getting off the train that brought him to Brussels was seen to be carrying a violin case. Everyone noticed it and everyone was favorably impressed. This diplomat is a musician and he must be passionately fond of music to carry his violin himself. We like diplomats who are artists...