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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House, and play host to 7,000 guests at a garden party at Buckingham Palace. In a busy week, he also found time to lend his approval to the engagement of his nephew, 26-year-old George Henry Hubert Lascelles, seventh Earl of Harewood, to dark-haired, Austrian-born Pianist Marion Stein, 22. Young Harewood, opera critic for the New Statesman and Nation and a potential heir to the throne (eleventh in line), was so far from kingship that nobody worried much about his marrying a com moner. Last week Miss Stein, a gypsy-faced, beauty whose father works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hail & Farewell | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...northern symphony orchestras, got their expenses only. At week's end, the hard work paid off in a lively concert by the yo-piece student-teacher band before a crowd of 1,200. Main event of the evening: Grieg's Concerto in A Minor, with Guest Pianist Eugene List, the ex-G.I. who played for Truman and Stalin at Potsdam, as soloist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Blue Ridge Beethoven | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...famed pianist and composer, Ferruccio Busoni, with whom Weill next studied, gave him some basic advice that he has followed ever since: "Don't be afraid of banality. After all, there are only twelve tones in the scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Home-Grown Opera | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...little daughter's piano teacher, played by Miss Bergman. Several arpeggios and one bottle of champagne later, the two have fallen deeply in love; a fortunate thing for the audience, but most unfortunate for Howard's wife and two children and Miss Bergman's promising career as a pianist...

Author: By Roy M. Goodman, | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

Under the leadership of Karl G. Kohn '48 and Margaret Sherman '50, the combined clubs have held regular monthly concerts of chamber music. Many of these have included such guest artists as Phyllis Curtin, soprano, and Lukas Foss, pianist. In addition, the Intercollegiate Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Samuel Adler, gave a concert in March at which works by contemporary composers were performed. The Orchestra included many of the most capable performers from colleges in the Boston area...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: From the Pit | 6/2/1949 | See Source »

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