Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York was organized, played for seven seasons with success; a Women's String Quartet was acclaimed, in Manhattan, in 1897. There have been innumerable famed women composers, instrumental virtuosos, of every nationality-Clara Schumann, wife of the great German composer, Robert Schumann; Mrs. Chazal, English composer, pianist; Carlotta Ferrari, foremost woman composer of Italy; Teresa Carreiia, Venezuela. Ethel Leginska has frequently been given public attention when she conducted orchestras (TIME, Jan. 19). A woman, Saint Cecelia, is the patron saint of Music. At all these notable women, male musicians have sniffed now and again. Other women, or sympathetic males...
Edward Ballentine, pianist and instructor in the Music Department, will play compositions of his own, among them "Variations on Mary had a Little Lamb," written after the styles of various well known composers. Other features of the concert will be solos by J. H. Wright '28 on the saxophone, and songs by L. C. Bates 11, who will be accompanied at the piano by L. D. Moore 2G.B. Selections on the violincello will be given by given by R. B. Greenman...
...lecture-recital by Mlle, Nadia Boulanger on the subject of the "Evolution of French Music" will be given in the Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building on Tuesday evening at 8.15 o'clock. Mlle, Boulanger is distinguished as an organist, pianist and composer, and she has been Assistant Professor of Harmony for many years at the Paris Conseravtory, where she has taught a number of Harvard men who have studied in Paris...
...silent, then burst into applause. Before them bowed Paderewski, come back to Rome for the first time in 28 years. Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt he played; after every number, a storm of clapping. At the concert's end, the Queen Mother herself stood up, smiled graciously at the pianist...
...orchestra. In the course of history, women have entertained and indeed achieved desires very similar. They have commanded knights and serfs, taken walled towns and sat throned among their armies. Yet, few women have ever risen to lead orchestras. Last week, in Manhattan, one did. Miss Ethel Leginska, famed pianist, composer, conducted the New York Symphony in Carnegie Hall...