Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hoagy honky-tonks around on a baby upright ("It's got that nice chuckachucka tone"), makes palaver with one Sherlee Turner. He also has another pianist, Buddy Cole, because he cannot play, sing and read lyrics at the same time. And he has to read the lyrics because he never learned to remember them, even his own. (He never learned to read music, either...
This week Hoagy will broadcast from back home in Indiana, where Indianapolis Mayor Robert H. Tyndall has proclaimed "Hoagy Carmichael Day." Hoagy (short for Hoagland) was born in Bloomington, Ind. in 1899. His father was an electrician; his mother, an early ragtime pianist, played in a local movie. (Says Hoagy: "She's 70 now, but she can still swing the bass handle.") At 20, Hoagy went to Indiana U., then a hotbed of hot music, and promptly began flying about with a flock of undergraduate musicians known as the "Bent Eagles." Their diversions: "Sensuously . . . stroking lemon meringue pie," "muggling...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, Khachatourian's Piano Concerto. Soloist: Pianist William Kapell. Conductor: Artur Rodzinski...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Wagner's Siegfried's Rhine Journey, Beethoven's Coriolanus Overture, Emperor Concerto. Soloist: Pianist Dame Myra Hess. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...
Richard Strauss: Songs (Lotte Lehmann, soprano, accompanied by Paul Ulanowsky, pianist; Columbia, 4 sides). The great lieder singer's first album of Strauss songs. Included are the haunting Allerseelen and the popular Morgen. Performance: excellent...