Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perpetrators of the latest threat to the nation's sanity are two Hollywood radio musicians-Pianist George Tibbies and Guitarist Ramey Idriss. Starting with the laugh-to the tune of the trumpet call used to round up musicians at rehearsals-they batted out both tune and lyrics in half an hour. They sang it over the phone to Producer Walter Lantz, whose animated cartoon hero Woody Woodpecker also uses the laugh, then whooshed it off to a publisher. Kay Kyser got it on wax just before James Caesar Petrillo's New Year's Eve recording ban. Tibbies...
...music lovers ever have any trouble appreciating Artur Schnabel, the great pianist. But in London last week, even 66-year-old Pianist Schnabel himself was afraid that many were going to have trouble with Schnabel, the composer. His atonal First Symphony is so formidable that he thought London audiences and critics ought to get a warmup on it before its premiere. So he invited them to the final rehearsal...
Ravel: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Leonard Bernstein, pianist-conductor, with the Philharmonic Orchestra of London; Victor, 5 sides). Ravel was feeling the hot breath of Gershwin on his neck when he wrote this one in 1932; Bernstein gives it dewy-eyed, loving treatment. Recording (on Vinylite): excellent...
Break for a Girl. Eileen has not forgotten how she got her start. Years ago, when she was in a Perth convent, a priest brought Composer-Pianist Percy Grainger to hear her play. Grainger, in turn, fetched the great German Pianist Wilhelm Back-haus, who was touring Australia. When Backhaus said that she must go to Leipzig to study, the miners passed the hat to send her. Now Eileen is looking around for another talented Australian girl who needs help. Says she: "This is a man's world, and a girl needs every break...
Gide was once a gifted pianist but played badly when he thought anyone was listening (he has not played since his wife's death). Because of a morbid fear of strangers, he cries "I am at home for nobody" when the doorbell rings; then he peers from behind a door at the visitor, often ends by asking him in for a chat...