Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have known about Half Moon Mountain almost since its inception. About a year ago Composer-Pianist Edwin Otto Gerschefski, dean of music at Spartanburg's Converse College, wrote us about his plan. He said he was a weekly reader of TIME with a habit of clipping stories and depositing them in the pocket of his jacket for easy reference. One such story, from the May 26, 1947 issue, had impr es s e d him so much ("I couldn't get it out of my mind") that he wanted permission to set it to music...
Last summer, fortified by a $500 grant from the Carnegie Foundation, Gerschefski settled down in a farmhouse in West Cambridge, N.Y., above the Ramapos, with his wife, who is also a composer and pianist, and their five children, aged one to 13 and ranging in talent from piano and trumpet through the cello. The nearest piano was an old upright in tiny Whiteside Church some miles away on a dusty country road. Gerschefski went there on foot each morning to work on his ballad, repay ing the parson on Sundays for the use of the piano by playing...
King stole the show. When Defense Minister Brooke Claxton, club president, proposed a toast to "the King," the banquet pianist thought he could mean no other King but the Prime Minister, and burst into For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Grinning happily as the Reformers almost brought down the Blue Room ceiling with their cheers, King spoke vigorously for 45 minutes on the theme of the great Liberals Quebec has produced. To the list of "giants" headed by Laurier, King tactfully added the name of Quebec Liberal Leader Adélard Godbout, with whom he had "shared...
...feverish practitioners like to wear berets, goatees and green-tinted horn-rimmed glasses, talk about their "interesting new sounds." The high priest is Dizzy, 30, a South Carolina boy whose rapid-fire, scattershot talk has about the same pace-and content-as his music. Whether he, an obscure Manhattan pianist named Thelonius Monk or Saxophonist Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker invented bebop is a matter of learned dispute among beboppers...
Lisa (Joan Fontaine), a girl in her middle teens, falls hopelessly in love with a smooth concert pianist (Louis Jourdan) who takes rooms across the hall. Busy with more full-blown girls, he scarcely realizes that she exists. When her family moves, Lisa cannot endure the separation; she runs away, and haunts certain Viennese coffee houses and street corners until the pianist picks her up. During their short affair her lover experiences a faint glimmer of tenderness which might end his philandering, but it doesn't register strongly enough for him to bother looking her up when he returns...