Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dynamo that turns this enthusiasm into operatic production is intense, thickset, greying Yolanda Mero-lrion, wife of Hermann Irion, a Steinway Piano Co. executive, now a Washington dollar-a-year man. Impresario Irion first came to the U.S. in 1909 as a well-known concert pianist. After touring the world on a piano stool for 20 years, she settled down on her husband's estate in Rockland County, N.Y. During the depression Yolanda Irion discovered that 60% of unemployed musicians were singers. With wealthy Socialite Mrs. Lytle Hull, Mrs. Irion outlined a plan which would 1) put singers...
Horrible grimaces and irrepressible feet may yet take Negro Pianist Dorothy Donegan places where her ten amazing fingers would not get her so fast. Wrote Down Beat, the blase semimonthly gospel of some 47,000 U.S. jazz fans: "She is, to us, the ideal in piano stylings. . . . We beckon to Hazel Scott to learn how the classics are swung. We invite Bob Zurke, Jess Stacy, Joe Sullivan, Billy Kyle, all of them, to see phenomenal piano work...
...unhappy-looking young woman whose earnestly inspired pianism last week was drawing throngs to Elmer's Cocktail Lounge, an obscure nitery in the heart of Chicago's Loop. Unlike most specialists in swinging the classics, Dorothy begins by playing her classics as straight as any Town Hall pianist. When she has polished off Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Schubert's Serenade or a batch of Chopin Nocturnes in the most acceptable highbrow fashion, Dorothy shuts her eyes. Her feet begin to pound the floor. Her face contorts as if she were in agony. What...
This spastic inspiration is not something Pianist Donegan has learned. In fact, she spent a lot of time trying to unlearn it. Dorothy was born on Chicago's dusky South Side, still lives there. Her father is a dining-car chef. When Dorothy was eight, her mother, who had always wanted to play the piano but could never get near enough to one to learn how, decided that, come what may, Dorothy must have lessons. Dorothy got them at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, where she studied classical music for four years. The Conservatory's high-brow teachers...
...sides). Latest addition to Decca's excellent historical anthology. Selected tidbits of the best small-scale Chicago and New Orleans style playing by such immortals as Jimmie Noone, Zutty Singleton, Eddie Condon, Jimmy McPartland. Notable items: Liberty Inn Drag and Get Happy, by the orchestra of famed Pianist Art Hodes, who has not made a recording since...