Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston Symphony Orchestra directed by Serge Kounsevitsky will give a concert in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. Arthur Honegger will be the guest conductor, assisted by Madame Andree Vaurabourg Honegger, pianist, and Miss Cobina Wright...
There are flippants who think of Ossip Gabrilowitsch as the little conductor with the highest collar in the world. There are others who know him better-as the Russian pianist who came to the U. S. and married Clara Clemens, Mark Twain's daughter, or as the conductor who went to Detroit and built up an orchestra there...
Last week in Manhattan the Schubert Memorial gave its first concert, presented Violinist Sadah Shuchari, 20 (onetime Sadie Schwartz) and Pianist Muriel Kerr, 17, both pupils of the Juilliard Foundation. External circumstances favored them. They had 80 members of the Philharmonic-Symphony to play with, Willem Mengelberg to conduct, Prof. John Erskine (also of the Juilliard school) to introduce them. They had many and important listeners, including leading critics. They had marked talent, both of them-but for Brahms' violin concerto, for Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto it was not enough. Nor did the leading critics appear...
Founders of the Schubert Memorial bewailed in their prospectus the slim chances of talented U. S. artists as against widely advertised ones with European reputations. Last week, as if to prove their point for them, there appeared again in Manhattan Vladimir Horowitz, 25-year-old Russian pianist who made his U. S. debut last winter. He played next day after the Schubert Memorial's concert, in the same hall with the same Philharmonic players and Conductor Willem Mengelberg. He played ambitiously, Brahms' great B flat Concerto-and in a manner so restrained and yet so immensely moving that...
...several years that the Glee Club has taken part in one of the regular Sunday night entertainment of the Union. In the past, these have been only short, 15 minute musicales. The longer programs are an innovation this year, and have been well supported F. K. Shuman, a pianist, has been engaged by the Union to play several solos. Mr. Shuman is a Boston musician...