Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lionel Hampton and his Band were scheduled to give a swing concert Sunday evening but actually nothing but a glorified stage show took place. From an entertainment viewpoint, the singing of Rubel Blakley and Dinah Washington, the comical acrobatics of Hampton and pianist Milton Buckner, and the valiant efforts of eight Boston Symphony violinists kept the evening from being a dull one. Musically, however, the band displayed merely the polish and intonation of any well-rehearsed name band and its sole distinctive feature was a seven-man brass section which could probably out blow even the Basic...
Father, Son and Dr. Benes. Most likely the best pianist among contemporary foreign ministers, and very probably the most accomplished cook (specialties: risotto, stews, soups; secret: powdered garlic), Masaryk tries hard to live down his name. He is a chip off a colossal old block: Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, his father, was not just the creator of Czechoslovakia but a sage of world stature...
...made a living as an ironworker and works manager in the Crane Co. (as a movie pianist on the side). "The only thing I know about diplomacy," says Minister Masaryk, "I learned in the iron foundry of the Crane Co. There were Slovaks, Swedes, Poles, Norwegians-absolutely everyone. I bought a blackboard and four times a week I taught them to read and to write. That was the strongest influence of my Europeanism...
Born in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), Kostelanetz made his professional debut as a concert pianist at the age of eight, and won his first major conducting assignment as Conductor of the Petrograd Grand Opera Orchestra when 19. He came to this country in 1927, and in 1930 was made conductor of one of the symphony orchestras of the Columbia Broadcasting System...
...concert sponsored by France Forever will be given at Jordan Hall tomorrow evening at 8:30 o'clock. The program will feature Robert Collins, baritone; Jean Bodetti, Cellist, Felix Fox, pianist; Georges Mager, trumpet; Joseph Lukatski, English horn; Jean Devergie, oboe; and 25 members of the Boston Symphony with Leo Litwin, accompanist, and Louis Speyer conducting...