Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...energy, comes from Buffalo, the son of a retail shoe dealer. As a boy he had a burning desire to be a Presbyterian minister. He went to the New England Conservatory of Music instead, there met Lee Pattison of Eagle Grove, Iowa, who had always quietly intended being a musician. In Boston the friends gave their first two-piano recitals, then in 1914 went to Berlin to study with Arthur Schnabel, famed Brahms expert who came to the U. S. last year especially to participate in the Boston Symphony's Brahms Festival (TIME, March 31). When the U. S. entered...
Twenty years ago Violinist Albert Spalding decided that it was a handicap to be the son of a man so rich as James Walter Spalding, board chairman of A. G. Spalding & Bros., famed sporting goods concern.* First concerts never pay for themselves. All young musicians start out with patrons. But poor boys, even though patronized, succeed far better than rich ones in capturing popular imagination. Silver-spoon talent is regarded as unlikely. Albert Spalding's debut was received with a certain suspicion. Says he: "The audience seemed to expect me to come out in a baseball suit." The wise...
...prize will be awarded to the best solution of the following problem: "A Tomb for a Great Musician: it is supposed that a genial composer of world-wide reputation included in his will the desire to be buried in a spot where it had been his custom to go to meditate on his work. A group of his friends . . . proposes to erect on that very spot a beautiful memorial tomb . . . The character should be very refined, the scale not monumental, the architecture and sculpture simple and calm...
Bach's Preludes and Fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Nos. 10-17 by Pianist Evlyn Howard-Jones (Columbia, $8)-A continuation of the Clavier series begun by Pianist Harriet Cohen (Nos. 1-9). Evlyn Howard-Jones, a capable London musician, was coolly received when he played in the U. S. Songs & Ballads...
...detective makes his appearance with this mystery-murder; his author promises more later. Thatcher Colt, a combination of Grover Whalen and Philo Vance, was one of New York City's Police Commissioners you may never have heard about. "What [he] really wanted was to be a musician and poet (in deadly privacy he applied himself to the forms of the sonnet and the villanelle and practiced cadenzas on a flute) but unfortunately nature had made him a detective and, as he once told me, with that quirkish smile of his, 'Not even my duties as Police Commissioner shall...