Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first of these was held in that sanctum of sanctorums known as Agassiz Hall on Friday, and it was a pity that so small a group took those little red and white announcements seriously. At any rate, four Boston Symphony musicians including Jean Lefrane and Alred Zighera plus a pianist, Paul Doguereau, made their appearance and very smoothly and beautifully furnished two-hours of French chamber music, which included the Faure Quintette, Opus 89, the Quartet, Opus 15, and the Ravel Trio in A Minor. To most of those present, including myself, these works were more or less unfamiliar...
...fortunately couldn't make it. Any substitute would be an improvement, and Una Mac Carlisle is a very great one. She's a protege of Fats Waller, contributing mightily to his classic record of "I Can't Give You Anything But Love." Una is no world-better as a pianist, but she is a fine singer...
...present Lady Beecham, whom Sir Thomas married after his Idaho divorce, is a blue-eyed, 34-year-old British pianist named Betty Humby who has often appeared on her husband's programs. Current apple of Sir Thomas' eye is her eleven-year-old son by a previous marriage. He plays the clarinet in the Deerfield (Mass.) Academy band...
Died. Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff, 69, world-famed pianist and one of the half-dozen greatest composers of his generation; of pneumonia, pleurisy and complications; at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. A musician of aristocratic, old-world habits and conservative tastes, he wrote three operas, three symphonies, four piano concertos, countless oft-performed songs and piano pieces, was probably best known for his ubiquitous Prelude in C Sharp Minor (the "Flatbush" Prelude). Son of a captain in the Russian Imperial Guards, gaunt, towering Sergei Rachmaninoff was a close friend and protégé of the late great Peter Ilich...
This Friday night at the South State Armory, opposite Back Bay Station, Earl Hines holds forth with orchestra. I haven't caught the band for over a year, but Hines is and will always be a fine pianist...