Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college, the aurora borealis was flashing across the skies; Hendricks took it as a good omen. At midnight he reached the home of another summertime neighbor and friend, Dorothy Thompson. She liked the idea, too, and agreed to help. So did Author Dorothy Canfleld Fisher, Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Pianist Rudolf Serkin...
...Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m. NBC). Chopin's Polonaise in A-Flat Major, Debussy's Clair de Lune, Grieg's Erotik and Concerto in A Minor (last movement). Guest: Pianist Artur Rubinstein...
...song caught on rapidly, and was a favorite in hot spots from Naples to Leghorn by the time Burrier left Italy in 1948. Back in Boston Burrier had a recording made by Preston Sandiford, a Negro pianist, which caught the attention of Wright Briggs, a pianist of Raykov's orchestra...
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 In B Flat (William Kapell, pianist, with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Golschmann conducting; Victor, 7 sides). A ragged, unsure playing of the least interesting of Beethoven's concertos. Recording: good...
Handel: Concerto in B Minor for Viola (William Primrose, viola, with the RCA-Victor Orchestra, Frieder Weissmann conducting; Victor, 5 sides). Handel seems to be making a comeback. This little-known, stately and graceful concerto was arranged by Henri Casadesus (uncle of Pianist Robert) in 1925, and is performed with spirit and fine tone by Primrose. Recording: excellent...