Word: pianiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan a fortnight ago came Composer Ottorino Respighi for the U. S. premiere of his Sunken Bell at the Metropolitan Opera House (TIME, Dec. 3). Last week he turned pianist, played with the Philharmonic-Symphony his new Toccata for piano and orchestra. Again critics marked his nice patterns, his smooth, glowing colors...
...Manhattan, Chairman Otto Kahn opened his house for an inaugural reception. Guests heard him speak on the scope of Schubert 'Week, heard Olga Samaroff outline the plans of a Schubert Memorial to help talented young U. S. musicians, heard Young Pianist Jerome Rappaport in evidence, heard the Musical Art Quartet. For refreshment then, there were vast quantities of paté de fois gras, chicken à la king, ice cream, cakes, cigarets, coffee. Some imagined later they had been served Scotch highballs, champagne cocktails, mixed by Brother Felix Kahn...
...Harvard Union will present the second of its informal Sunday evening entertainments in the Living Room at 8 o'clock tomorrow. The presentation which is open to members of the Union, will be a concert presented by Albert W. Lind '29, violinist, and Paul G. Anderson pianist...
Last week La Argentina made her U. S. debut† in Town Hall, Manhattan-a dusky curtain for her background, Pianist Carmencita Perez, billed as soloist of the Royal Spanish Court, to make her music. Pianist Perez played first but the evening began with the clicking of castanets in the wings and the gliding entrance of La Argentina. She was tired and languorous as the sun that used to warm her; she was glittering and remote; she was a primitive thing driving away evil spirits to the fire music made from de Falla's Amor Brujo, snapping her fingers...
Familiar indeed are Damrosch faces. There was Dr. Leopold first, a German Jew who fathered them all along with the Oratorio and Symphony Societies of New York. There are his four children-Teacher Frank (head of the Institute of Musical Art, now associated with the Juilliard Foundation); Pianist Clara, married to Violinist David Mannes and running with him the Mannes School of Music; Pianist Elizabeth (Mrs. Henry T. Seymour); Conductor Walter; Conductor Walter's wife who was Margaret Blaine, daughter of the late Senator James G. Blaine; Conductor Walter's four daughters-Alice (Mrs. Pleasants Pennington), Gretchen...