Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Josef Casimir Hofmann, famed pianist, director of the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, left for England on the Mauretania to accept unusual jury service. To be judged: a carillon of 6r bells (the lightest, 7 Ibs.; the heaviest, 11 tons), destined for the Florida bird sanctuary of Publicist Edward William...
Ernest H. Schelling, pianist, composer D. Music...
...best. They will be examined by five exceedingly able judges who, if none of the offerings are good enough to get the prize, will award the money to the "development of creative musical work in America. . . ." The five: Olga Samarov, onetime critic (1926-27) New York Evening Post, concert pianist, divorced wife and friend to Leopold Stokowski; Leopold (Anton Stanislaw) Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, by some able critics considered the world's best symphony conductor after Toscanini; Rudolf Ganz, Swiss pianist, composer, onetime (1921-26) conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; Sergei Alexandrovitch Koussevitzky, Russian...
Engaged. Genevieve Carpenter, daughter of famed composer John Alden Carpenter ("Skyscraper Ballet"), to J. Elliot Cabot, Boston scion. When Miss Carpenter made her début in 1922 at a musicale in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Pianist Rubenstein played the program...
Having happened to read in TIME, April 9, that my father, Vladimir de Pachmann the pianist, is a Jew, and that assertion being quite inexact, I beg you to rectify that error as soon as possible (if possible in the next issue of your magazine...