Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closest thing to professional entertainment was given by "Irish Puss" Gibbons with his priceless solos of old Irish songs accompanied by the inimitable pianist Howie Locke. I could honestly listen to this combination for hours, but this duet hasn't got the endurance of the aforementioned Hubert I could ramble on and on about the new-found talent, but it would run into somebody else's column...
Wittgenstein, for whom Maurice Ravel wrote his Concerto for Left Hand, is the world's N01 one-armed pianist. Conductor Reiter fractured his right foot a few days before the concert. While the pianist played left-anded, the conductor conducted left-footed, holding his game foot gingerly aloft...
There is soft-spoken Burt Klakring, the man who watched a horse race on the Japanese seacoast through his periscope. He is also known in the Navy as an expert pianist, was described in the Lucky Bag the year he was graduated from Annapolis as "super-sentimental." On a single patrol, mild-mannered, sentimental Commander Klakring sank 70,000 tons...
...Hall, took up engineering after hearing Mischa Elman's debut.* In a Brauhaus he played his way through college, finally landed in vaudeville as "Ben, The Eccentric Violinist." In the early '20s he formed one of the country's leading dance bands (for a while his pianist was Oscar Levant). For years he set the beat at Chicago's College Inn and Manhattan's Roosevelt Grill. On the radio his pseudo-feuding with Walter Winchell became as famous as the sign-off he gave Jan. 15 for the last time: "Au revoir, a fond cheerio...
...When Mischa Elman heard Jascha Heifetz's debut, he remarked to his companion, Pianist Leopold Godowsky, that it was a hot night. Said Godowsky: "Not for pianists...