Word: organists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brought up in a musical family (his mother was a piano teacher), Sir Henry started his career at the age of ten as deputy organist in a London church. Later he gave recitals up & down the country, conducted opera, spent a period as a singing teacher. In the 44 years since the Promenade Concerts began he has done more conducting than any living man and has probably trained more orchestral players. Out of season he finds time to do wood carvings and carpentry and produce professional-looking landscape paintings. When the concert season is on he becomes a passion...
Most extraordinary of all musical geniuses was Austria's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Starting his career as a four-fold infant prodigy (harpsichordist, violinist, organist, composer), he wrote, during his short lifetime of 35 years, more music than most great composers who lived twice as long...
CESAR FRANCK : CHORAL No. 1 IN E MAJOR FOR ORGAN (AlbertSchweitzer; Columbia: 4 sides). On the famous organ at Ste. Aurelie, Strasbourg, Organist Schweitzer plays Organist Franck's score as Franck himself might have played...
Most recent BBC deserter is Organist Reginald Foort, whose fan-letter pile towers highest in British radio. Foort left a seaman's job to play a piano in a Lyons Corner House restaurant,* became Britain's most popular cinema organist. Organist Foort this week was officially on vacation, actually en route to Manhattan to pick up a new organ for an assault on the big money. He has resigned from BBC, will open in November a music-hall tour which guarantees him $13,000 for a year, almost three times his annual BBC earnings...
...Organist Biggs believes that the 18th-Century organs, few of which exist today, reached the same peak of perfection as the violins of Stradivarius, feels that organs made since, with their gadgets and kickshaws, have come a long way downhill...