Word: pianiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cinderella, how she grew in the smoky Midland? town, full of belching mills and little people, how she took a husband as a stepping-stone to Manhattan, how she buried him as a stepping-stone to Paris, how she made several people her stepping-stones to fame as a pianist, and then, after a little experimenting, how she found she had nowhere else to step...
...Philadelphia Orchestra gave its first public concert. With it appeared as soloist Ossip Gabrilowitsch, brilliant young Russian pianist, then making his first U.S. tour. Last week the same orchestra, the same soloist were heard again in Manhattan. Because he felt himself a comparative newcomer, Leopold Stokowski handed his stick to Concertmaster Thaddeus Rich who, a better conductor than most concertmasters, led the first number. Then Mr. Gabrilowitsch, a more mature and no less brilliant artist than he was 25 years ago, sonorously assisted in interpreting the rugged, lordly and immortal Tschaikowsky's B-flat Minor Concerto...
Citizens of Hagerstown, Md., (population 30,000) will group themselves around a poster tacked to a butternut tree. The poster will announce that Paderewski, World's Greatest Pianist, will play in Hagerstown...
Although local boosters quite naturally take this news to mean that Hagerstown is at last coming to long-merited recognition as a centre of culture and the arts, there is still another reason behind the great pianist's visit. Hagerstown is near Washington, D.C.; and people who want to hear Paderewski can easily get over by bus or motor. In fact, if they expect to hear him this winter, this is just what they will have to do, for Paderewski will not play in Washington...
...this name conjures up the image of an austere, almost emaciated woman, Mme. Marie Curie, famed co-discoverer of radium. Last week an appreciative concert audience packed the Salle des Agricultures while the youngest (20-year-old) daughter of the great scientist made her début as a pianist...