Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...progress for the past three weeks, occurring on alternate Sundays at two o'clock in the Tapestry, Room, usually featuring some concert artist. This Sunday the soloist is to be one of the world-famous violinists, Bronislaw Huberman, and following that, on November 1, Frank Glazer, the eminent Boston pianist. The opportunity to hear Huberman is a rare and exceptional one, for Huberman has in past years been known to this country chiefly through his tremendous reputation in Europe. Those who know his recording of the Tchaikowski Violin Concerto may recall that his style in that is brilliant and flashy...
...Boston, the Fine Arts offers its annual series of alternate Sunday reictals, devoted as before mainly to little-known and early music, and music in small forms. The program for this Sunday is listed as "English Music from Earliest Times to the Present Day" by Stanley Bates, Composer-Pianist, and if Mr. Bates lives even part way up to his title, he ought to quash the ill-be-gotten notion that the English are not a race of composers...
Died. Mme. Antonina Paderewska Wilkonska, 83, only sister of the late, great Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski...
Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born pianist and greatest living composer of light opera, is of an age which the swift and relentless stride of time has left alive only in memories. His name was greatest when whispered by ladies in ruffled hoop-skirts to frock-coated gentlemen seated next to them in their box-seats. Like those of his fellow-spirit, Victor Herbert, his opera stories are now watery wine to a world once intoxicated by the theme of gay, romantic love bursting Victorian bonds. But despite all of this and much more which could be added from the pens...
Dark, elegantly tweedy Pianist Harriet Cohen laid aside an ocelot muff, spread her beautiful hands before the microphone. "During the blitz," she asked, "what would we all have done without the hands of women doctors, nurses, masseuses, A.R.P. workers...