Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr., 16, admitted his father was training him in the tricks of the trade. "But I may be a concert pianist," he added...
Limehouse Blues and If I Had You (Benny Goodman Sextet; Okeh). A new combination-Benny. Trombonist Lou McGarity, Pianist Mel Powell, three rhythm...
Myra Hess, British pianist now in London, has received 315 birthday greetings by mail since her birthday-last Feb. 25. Mutual friends conspired in a "chain-greeting" plot. Among the conspirators: Lord Halifax, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Thornton Wilder, Albert Einstein...
Such, or thereabouts, is Artur Rubinstein, Polish prodigy who has been a professional pianist for 42 of his 53 years. He is now on a 25-week tour. For pianistic form and box-office appeal, Rubinstein rates with the best of them-polished Josef Hofmann (56 years at the keyboard); titanic Sergei Rachmaninoff; glittering Vladimir Horowitz; sober Artur Schnabel; suave Walter Gieseking (now in Switzerland); rippling-fingered Moriz Rosenthal, 79-year-old pupil of Liszt...
Artur Rubinstein is no kin to Russia's late Pianist Anton Rubinstein, one of the greatest of all time. Irritated at being continually asked whether they were related, he once bought a cap labeled "No." To Artur Rubinstein are dedicated the two toughest keyboard workouts of all time: 1) Stravinsky's "Sonata" from his ballet score Petrouchka; 2) Rudepoema, a ferocious tonal portrait of Rubinstein by Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos, whom the pianist helped launch. Rubinstein's tremendous digital attack once wrecked a piano of the late Queen Victoria, at a performance for the present Duke...