Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Classically trained. Harpsichordist Marlowe learned about jazz from Purist John Henry Hammond Jr., became so good that she played an engagement last spring at Manhattan's Rainbow Room. When "Jelly Roll'' Morton, famed Negro pianist, heard one of her records, he argued: "That couldn't be a white man playing, and it certainly couldn't be a woman.'' Boogie-woogie, with its classic repeated bass figures, its percussive attack, seemed to Miss Marlowe just right for the harpsichord. Radio listeners agreed...
...Mana Zuckerman, in New York City. She was musically prodigious. Her pressagents claim that, on her third birthday, she furiously demolished a toy piano because it had no F sharp and she could not play The Last Rose of Slimmer on it. Mana-Zucca made her debut as a pianist at eight with the New York Symphony under Dr. Walter Damrosch. Year later she published her first composition...
...Eros had not said good-by to her. The same year Comrade Sand met Pianist Chopin. He was 27 and she was 33. Said he: "What an utterly unsympathetic woman!" Said she: He is "an angel with the face of a grieving woman." The angel had had a hard time in the world since his arrival from Warsaw. When the unsympathetic woman offered him the comforts of her home, the angel accepted. The arrangement was not altogether happy. "After all," wrote Balzac to his great friend, Madame Hanska, "she is a man and wants...
Fellowe was Hungarian Pianist Franz Liszt. One of the women was the Countess Marie d'Agoult. She had caused quite a scandal by leaving her husband and running away with Liszt after they had wept together over one of those novels by George Sand in which the heroines always prefer passion to domesticity. The Piffoel family was Authoress Sand and her children. Part of the confusion of genders came about because Liszt's brilliant pupil, Hermann Cohen, another of the party, insisted on wearing girl's clothes. Madame Sand insisted on wearing men's clothes. They...
Alone again, Authoress Sand considered Pianist Liszt as a successor to Musset and the doctor. Replied the cautious virtuoso: Only God deserves to be loved. In 1836 George Sand wrote in her diary: "Farewell, Eros! You idol of my youth! . . . The present and future are free for the service of humanity. . . ." She began to write proletarian novels in which heroines no longer deserted their husbands for love but for the revolution and the socialist teachings of Saint-Simon and Louis Blanc...