Word: pianiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia last week the Curtis Institute of Music* broke all precedent and began its fifth season on a purely scholarship basis. No tuition fees were accepted, musical merit was sole entrance requirement. Again is Pianist Josef Casimir Hofman director...
Nicholas Slovimsky, a well known Boston conductor, composer, and pianist, who has been appointed to lead the orchestra again this year, will conduct the trials. All members of the University are invited to compete...
...epigrams, not of mirthful innocence but of adultery. Thus the theme of Arthur Richman's ill-illumined comedy of the Park Avenue elite is haughty but it's vice. The lady of his piece is married to an urbane cuckold who regards benignantly her indiscretions with a pianist and financier. When he grows tired of her promiscuous activities, she evades his attempt to catch her. At the end, however, trapped with poetic justice, she falls prey to the advances of his private detective...
Last week the judges, Rubin Goldmark, U. S. composer, and Ernest Henry Schelling, U. S. pianist, awarded this prize to one Bozidar Kunc.. Composer Kunc had concocted a short concerto in two movements, the first in "a lovely, brave style," the second a dance which utilized folk melodies. Hitherto unheard of, Composer Kunc was discovered to be a native of Zagreb, capital of Croatia. His concerto will be heard publicly for the first time in October when Violinist Balokovic will play it in Berlin. Thereafter it will occupy a place on 66 programs with which Violinist Balokovic will tour...
...wings of a theatre at Potsdam, Germany, a flossy pianist began to play. What he played was transmitted by telephone to the ears of the members of an orchestra in Berlin 17 miles away. They followed the piano on their various instruments; what they played was transmitted to Potsdam by another telephone and then amplified so as to fill the theatre in the wings of which the flossy pianist was softly strumming. On the stage of the theatre an opera company sang to the music of the Berlin orchestra, thus successfully completing an experiment which would, Berlin officials suggested, make...