Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highest-paid musician in the U.S. is Singer Nelson Eddy. He has pocketed $7,000 for a single concert, generally gets $3,000-$3,500. His take last year: better than $200,000. So reported Variety last week. Second-best box office, said Variety, was petite, vivacious Coloratura Lily Pons, who averages $3,000 an appearance...
...when, in contrast to much modern music that sounded merely disillusioned, cynical and ugly, young Shostakovich's First Symphony spoke up brightly with gusty tunes and youthful zest. This month, phonograph record shops all over the U.S. put on display two outstanding albums of the premier Russian musician: his Symphony No. 6 (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Victor; 9 sides); his Piano Quintet (Vivian Rivkin and Stuyvesant String Quartet; Columbia; 8 sides...
...late Henry Church, a Chagrin Falls, Ohio blacksmith, musician and spiritualist preacher, who not only painted, but carved himself a colossal sandstone lion for a tombstone and recorded his own funeral sermon on a gramophone cylinder...
...picket line which about-faced Mrs. Roosevelt belonged to the A.F. of L. musician's union, of which James Caesar ("Mussolini") Petrillo (see p. 42) is boss. Because In Time to Come has two minutes of off-stage band music played on a phonograph, the musician's union demanded that four musicians be hired, to sit in the wings. Pay of the four do-nothing musicians would have cost Producer Otto L. Preminger $337.50 a week. Mr. Preminger tried to settle for one musician, at $112.50 a week, but the union would not agree...
Violinist Hubermann was the first musician of renown to refuse to play in Hitler's Germany. He has written two books on plans for a United States of Europe. A onetime resident of Vienna, he believes that Germany and Austria should be separated. In an interview after his recent arrival in Manhattan, he danced a Viennese waltz to demonstrate his conviction that Poles and Russians play Viennese music without the "beery heaviness" of the Germans...