Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Clissold, will be the subject of an address by John Havnes Holmes at the Community Church, Symphony Hall, tomorrow nothing at 10.45 o'clock. A musical program opening at 10.30 o'clock, will be given by J. H. Symonds, violinist, Gladys Berry, cellist, Mrs. Roland M. Baker, pianist, and Margaret Gorham Glaser, organist...
Josef Hofmann, pianist: "There are many trials in my profession, involving as it does rapid and constant traveling. No sooner was I entrained from London for Folkestone, Eng., than my train was derailed, just outside Charing Cross Station. I was the first to leave the train; I walked the track swiftly back to the station, keeping a wary eye on the electric rail; I motored 70 miles to Folkestone, arriving in time for my concert...
...convinced of the future greatness of their stupid, bespectacled little boy, Martikins. Then, when the pipe turns up, when the latch is post-poned again, the party over, their everlasting Smithness becomes contented retrospect. Martikins emits a flash of adolescent near-greatness, marries a vivid girl, almost becomes a pianist, and the Smiths are hurt, alarmed, until the flash is extinguished. Everlasting Smithness shows now as endless piddling, now as hope eternal. It ends as everlasting Smithness, a vegetable condition as happily comfortable as it is unadventurous. Symptomatic of the prevalence of Smithness are the prodigious sales, not only...
...made a name for herself as an orchestral leader. In America she has on a number of occasions conducted large metropolitan orchestras. A London paper complimented her conducting with the remark that "she is as ambidextrous as a conductor as she necessarily has to be as a pianist." American orchestra have featured her work as exceptional and unique...
Miss Leginska has most recently drawn attention to herself by disappointing various managers in respect to particular engagements. But these exploits belie her fame which consists in traditional eminence as a pianist and more recently fame as a conductress. She is an English woman by nationality and studied first at the Hoch Conservatory and later under Teschetsky. She began touring Europe in 1905, although her first appearance in New York did not come until...