Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...renowned for his eccentricity as for his talent, Canadian-born Concert Pianist Glenn Gould, 28, often bundles up against the cold in mid-August. One day a year ago, as Gould tells it, he was sitting in the Manhattan offices of Steinway & Sons when William Hupfer, Steinway's chief technician, strode in overflowing with a he-man heartiness usually reserved for college reunions. On previous occasions, according to Gould, Hupfer had subjected him to "unduly strong handshakes and other demonstrative physical acts." This time, Gould claims, Hupfer approached him from behind and "recklessly or negligently let both forearms down...
Died. Clara Haskil, 65, Rumanian-born concert pianist who made her debut in Vienna at seven, won her first Grand Prix in Paris at 14, later played sonatas with such luminaries as Violinists Enesco and Ysaye, Cellist Casals; of injuries suffered in a fall; in a railroad station in Brussels...
...addition to conducting, Joey plays half a dozen instruments, has written one symphony, eleven sonatinas, two sonatas, two piano concertos, two overtures, a tone poem, a rondo and a rhapsody. His problem just now is to determine whether he wants to be a composer, a conductor or a concert pianist. "Well," says Papa Alfidi calmly, "look at Lenny Bernstein. What...
...past decade. Says he: "What the hell, I can't control the American way of life. I'm not going to fight it; I'm going to join it." He began joining it when he left college (Colgate) to become a nightclub pianist. The lyrics to Rudolph, based on Robert L. May's children's book of the same name, occurred to him on the street one April day, and within a matter of hours he had added the music. Gene Autry introduced the song at Madison Square Garden and sent...
Divorced. By Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott, 40: Harlem's fast-stepping, quick-talking Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 52; after 15 years of marriage, one child, and a long estrangement; in Juarez, Mexico...