Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Wild Bill Davison, famed hot trumpeter, and his pianist, James P. Johnson, will come in from their current engagement at the Ken tonight to play at the Network jam session in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room at 7 o'clock...
...Army. The new work was stormy and large in scale. It did not seem likely to disturb either of the two kinds of Harris listeners: 1) devotees, who see in Harris' rugged themes a reflection of the energy and spaciousness of U.S. life; 2) skeptics like blind Pianist Alex Templeton, who thought Harris' Third Symphony sounded "like a lot of people moving furniture around...
Symphony musicians who think they are underpaid should "take over the conduct of Philharmonic orchestras," recommended peppery Sir Thomas Beecham, 63-year-old British symphony conductor who last fortnight married 35-year-old British Pianist Betty Humby. The wealthy laxative heir (Beecham's Pills) told a Manhattan lecture audience that music's future depended on the bounty of the rich. Warning of possible state control over the music world, he forecast that ultimately "an enlightened government will declare that it cannot support such a luxury...
Schumann: Quintet in E-Flat Major (The Busch Quartet with Rudolf Serkin, pianist; Columbia; 8 sides). Up-to-date sound technique and sympathetic playing make this the finest recording of Schumann's chamber-music masterpiece...