Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Florence Mills, pastel darktown strutter, made a very serious concert bow last week before the International Composers' Guild, Manhattan, Eugene Goossens and Ottorino Respighi conducting; Mme. Respighi, soloist, and Alfredo Casella, pianist. Thin, glittering, syncopation in her eye, she sang four songs with a small jazz orchestra-"Levee Land" it was called, by William Still...
...journeyers came to pay their respects to the dignified lady of 64, Theodore Roosevelt's second wife, mother of five of his six children, the same lady who in the first decade of the century, slender featured, fair skinned, a lover of out of doors and a delicate pianist, presided gracefully over the White House...
Ethel Leginska, in a velveteen dress, with a puff of wiry hair spreading a determined aureole around her pale face, appeared, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra as pianist, conductor, composer. Critics agreed that her suite, "Six Nursery Rhymes for Soprano and Small Orchestra," was amusing and adept; that the 85 gentlemen of the orchestra conducted her, rather than she them; that she is a brilliant pianist...
...Orleans Civic Opera Company began its season with a performance of Carmen, starring Alice Gentle. In Manhattan a pianist kept his audience waiting for half an hour after his recital was billed to begin. When at last he entered, he began to thump the keys in an unmerciful manner, forcing his tone, letting his left hand get in front of his right and pouring out his music like beer carelessly dumped into a mug too small for it so that a turbulent foam froths over. And yet, by some strange madness in his playing he gave his technical vagaries...
...Baltimore, an aged pianist whose eyes looked out of caverns that fatigue had carved in his sombre face, struck up "Maryland, My Maryland." The chords strode across a half-empty Armory, coming faintly to the ears of a far younger musician, who sat in a chair thickly padded with blankets and thumped dully at another keyboard. These two-Professor Camillo Baucia, "champion marathon pianist of Europe," and B. G. Burt of Jamestown, N. Y., U. S. champion-had been playing continuously for over 52 hours. They had played all the tunes they knew; the pianos were going flat; only...