Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Town Hall dour Wanda Landowska took her bow in a harpsichord recital which critics pronounced the finest tinkling of its kind. At Carnegie Hall a recital by dignified Pianist Egon Petri followed the recital of an indomitable U.S. lady violinist, Byrd Elliot, who perennially performs before an audience that would scarcely strain the capacity of an average front parlor. Baritone Yves Tinayre, accompanied by a troop of dramatic dancers, moaned the music of medieval French masters in a recital which one critic described as "constricted cooing...
...players is Joe Pamelia '46, tenor sax player and winner of the Swing contest held last summer at Winthrop House. Another new man is the pianist, Courtney Crandall '46, who in a few months has become the co-leader of the group...
Today Johnny Mercer lives in a Hollywood bungalow, tailors lyrics to fit the suavely hocketing voice of his friend Bing Crosby, rolls up between $50,000 and $85,000 a year in cinema lyric contracts and ASCAP royalties. A one-finger pianist, he does his composing with the help of Tunesmith Harold Arlen. After a two-hour stretch with Tunesmith Arlen, he usually knocks off for an afternoon of golf. Says Johnny: "If I get a good title and the first couple of lines within two hours, that's a damn good day. . . . Most of my titles and lyrics...
...after her father's death, she became pianist in an all-female band. Three years later she stopped a Broadway show, Sing Out the News, with her sultry rendition of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones. But her break came with a chance to fill in for ailing Blues Singer Ida Cox at Barney Josephson's downtown Café Society, a Manhattan Mecca for jazz connoisseurs. Result: Hazel Scott has been entertaining Café Society audiences ever since. Two years ago Showman Josephson opened a Cafe Society Uptown to house her art with greater swank, now finds it packed nightly...
...renomination early in an outstate rural district; Mrs. Dorothy Kemp Roosevelt (divorced wife of the late Gracie Hall Roosevelt, brother of the President's wife), who got the Democratic nomination to Congress in a suburban Detroit district. Comely, brown-eyed Mrs. Roosevelt, mother of three daughters, concert pianist, once headed the State's WPA music project, beat five opponents, campaigning as an all-out supporter of the Administration and critic of Congress for lagging behind the people on war issues. She faces a hard fight in November: her district has been regularly Republican...