Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile music had been mobilized as a national morale builder. In London, shilling concerts organized by Pianist Myra Hess in the National Gallery (de nuded of its pictures) still attracted 500 to 1,500 people every noonday. Plodding old Sir Henry Wood began his 46th-and-farewell year as conductor of the Promenade Concerts of the London Symphony...
Married. Alec Andrews Templeton, 30, blind, British-born pianist and deft musical parodist (Bach Goes to Town, The Shortest Wagnerian Opera}; and onetime Singer Juliette Vaiani, 39; in Los Angeles...
Lily Pons, with her husband, Andre Kostelanetz, on the podium, was once more the summer's best draw, had six major engagements, attracted 60,000 people to Milwaukee's Washington Park, where an orchestra shell was donated by retired Brewer Emil Blatz. Pianist Alec Templeton and Soprano Kirsten Flagstad trailed her, with five dates each. Flagstad drew 225,000 to Grant Park, 20,000 to Manhattan's Stadium, but only 3,000 on a hot night in Philadelphia's Dell. Oscar Levant's fame in Information Please is paying out. He had four engagements, drew...
Died. Daniela Thobe, about 80, granddaughter of the great Hungarian Composer Franz Liszt (1811-86), stepdaughter of the great German Composer Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-83); in Bayreuth, Germany. Daniela's father, Pianist-Conductor Hans von Bülow, was a stanch friend cf Wagner until his wife ran off with Wagner; and Daniela's half-brother was Wagner's illegitimate son, Siegfried...
...Saxon State Orchestra, Karl Bohm conducting, with Walter Gieseking; Columbia: 8 sides). But for the still-smoldering fire of two grand old men of pianism (Josef Hofmann and Sergei Rachmaninoff) French-born, 44-year-old Walter Gieseking would be ranked by most connoisseurs as today's No. i pianist. Here Pianist Gieseking gives Beethoven's most lyric piano concerto its finest recording to date...