Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went; and Loie Fuller, whose tour was supposed to be keyed to the ludicrous U. S. progress of her friend Queen Marie of Rumania. Other attractions launched in the U. S. by Hurok: Basso Feodor Chaliapin, Contralto Marian Anderson, Dancer Mary Wigman, the Vienna Choir Boys, the Piccoli Theatre, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Hindu Dancer Uday Shan...
Last week at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, Bell engineers gave an invitation performance of their stereophonic recordings of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, conducted and enhanced by silver-maned Leopold Stokowski. After listening to the thunderings and whisperings, Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff was inclined to doubt the musical worth of the recordings. Said he: "Too much enhancing; too much Stokowski...
Bela Bartok, noted Hungarian pianist and composer, will give a lecture-recital in Paine Hall at 8:30 o'clock Monday evening, April 22, to which the public will be admitted without charge. He is one of the most distinguished of the modern composers...
...animals." A solid, massive-browed, bob-haired man, Honegger rode a New Haven locomotive, clad in beret and white overalls, on his last U. S. visit in 1929. Most of the time he lives in Paris. There Honegger shares a home not with a locomotive but a wife, Pianist Andree Vaurabourg. No Johnny-One-Note, he has written, besides Pacific 231, many a top-notch score, including two big, sombre Biblical works, Le Roi David and Judith. Among 20-odd cinema scores he did before Harvest, best-known in the U. S. were Mayerling and Pygmalion...
Authors of Bonjour les Demoiselles are Private Roger Bernstein, 28, a pianist for Music Publisher Salabert (one of the jurors), and Jean Vogade, 48, pianist to Tenor Tino Rossi. The Gamelin song was concocted by Jean Rodor, 58, veteran of World War I and a professional librettist, and Corporal Paul Durand, 32, composer of a French hit song, Tell Me That You Love...