Word: myra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shut up shop. But last week London music opened at a new stand, started doing a rushing business. The hall was London's venerable and massive National Gallery, whose thousands of priceless canvases were long since taken from their frames and stored "somewhere in England." Famed British Pianist Myra Hess and her teacher, 81-year-old Tobias Matthay, thought up the cheerful idea of filling the empty, tomblike gallery with popular-priced concerts for London's war-worried workers. With the help of a redheaded British adman named Ronald Jones, they got permission from His Majesty...
Schumann: Carnaval Suite (Myra Hess, pianist; Victor: 6 sides) and Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 (Kurt Appelbaum, pianist; Musicraft: 6 sides...
...MYRA EASTMAN Seattle, Wash...
Schumann: Concerto in A Minor for Piano and Orchestra (Myra Hess with an orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr; Victor: 8 sides). Finest recording to date of a popular Romantic masterpiece...
...specialty was poisoning. Her first attempt, upon a fellow nurse in Massachusetts General Hospital in 1886, was unsuccessful. Thereafter she seldom failed. Born Honora Kelly, daughter of a loony sot called "Kelly the Crack," she poisoned Captain & Mrs. Abner Toppan of Lowell, who had adopted her. She poisoned Mrs. Myra Connors, matron of Episcopal Theological School in 'Cambridge, in order...