Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gollan has an incurable interest in a disease that he himself has suffered from. At the age of three in Czechoslovakia, where he was born 38 years ago, Dr. Gollan had an attack of infantile paralysis. He survived uncrippled. Until he was 17, he planned to be a concert pianist, but a doctor-uncle attracted him to medicine. He escaped from Czechoslovakia just ahead of the Nazis in 1938: his parents died in Auschwitz gas chambers...
This conformed to the political pattern by which Petrillo has always governed and maintained authority within the union. Of the A.F.M.'s 215,000 members, only 80,000 are full-time musicians. By cultivating the tavern pianist, the burlesque-show drummer, the small-town clerk who plays a piccolo, Petrillo insures himself a long and presumably happy reign...
...phone rang in the Chicago Symphony's office, and a familiar voice spoke all-too-familiar words: "Dr. Rodzinski cannot conduct rehearsal today." Assistant Conductor Tauno Hannikainen was hurriedly called in. He had just 24 hours to rehearse with the soloist (Pianist Myra Hess) and to start learning Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Several hours later, the phone rang again; once again it was Mrs. Rodzinski on the line: "Dr. Rodzinski is better; he will conduct the Shostakovich; Hannikainen can conduct the rest." But the orchestra's trustees had already heard enough. Midway through the concert next...
...with his flashy Gayane Ballet Suite and his trashy Piano Concerto. Beethoven, usually voted a top favorite in most U.S. bull-session polls, made the list with two piano sonatas, the Moonlight and Pathétique, neither of which rates tops with highbrow critics. Pianist José Iturbi led the single record best-sellers with Debussy's Clair de Lune and a firm version of Chopin's much-mutilated A-Flat Polonaise...
Musorgsky learned early to drink like a gentleman; later he just drank. At 13, already a talented pianist, he entered the School of Guards Ensigns in St. Petersburg, where according to one account, "all free time after drilling was dedicated by the cadets to dancing, amours, and drink. General Sutgof was . . . proud when a cadet came back from leave drunk with champagne, sprawled in an open carriage drawn by his own trotters...