Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Betty Humby was the youngest sprig ever to win a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. At 14, she took on 30 pupils of her own. At 16 she became a piano professor, under Pianist Myra Hess at Tobias Matthay's famed London music school. Later she married an Anglican parson, the Reverend H. Cashel Thomas, now vicar of St. Philip's in London...
Rumba Rhapsody (Cuarteto Caney, Decca). The Cuarteto's pianist, Rafael Audinot, improvises impressively on a rumba theme. A Latin-American record collector's item...
...even waived for the needy. Like most settlement schools, Greenwich House is less interested in training professional musicians than in teaching music as an avocation. But it is proud-just as Chicago's Hull House is of Benny Goodman and Manhattan's Music School Settlement is of Pianist Ray Lev-of having produced one professional comer: Dante Fiorillo, Pulitzer and Guggenheim-winning (four times) composer...
...first program, Salon Swing, Miss Crane put an obscure pianist, a vocal quintet, a small hot band-Negroes all. The pianist, light-fingered Kentuckian Herman Chittison, won fame in Europe during the past decade, leading bands and swinging Chopin and Schubert at the. keyboard. It took Louise Crane seven months to track him down in Manhattan. The five vocalists chose an appalling name for their collective debut: the Sophistichords. But they deftly turned English and European songs inside out, kidded the pants off the clown's teary air from Pagliacci. The band of the evening, John Kirby...
...slaps and bows the bull fiddle. He, too, swings the classics, in his own delicate, sophisticated arrangements and those of his black, impish trumpeter, Charlie Shavers. Kirby's clarinetist is an oldtimer: goggle-eyed Buster Bailey, who looks half of his 39 years. The band-filled out by Pianist Billy Kyle, Drummer O'Neil Spencer, Alto Saxophonist Russell Procope (rhymes with "no soap")-has been unchanged for nearly three years, a phenomenon in the trade. But Kirby was lately separated from the sweet singer he discovered and married, Maxine Sullivan...