Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iturbi, warm-blooded conductor-pianist, shaved & bathed in cold water for a few days, then took action against his Los Angeles plumber, who had his hot-water heater. The plumber, charged Iturbi, hadn't carried out a repair job as promised, but demanded $50 before he would return the heater. The chattering maestro sued for $3,000 damages...
...sons of professional men who were mainly clerics, professors, doctors, lawyers, journalists. One-fourth of their fathers were businessmen; the rest were farmers, auditors, a railroad conductor, etc. Their mothers (51% of them) were housewives, but the rest practiced a variety of occupations such as school teacher (14%), concert pianist, actress, periodical illustrator...
Next came folk singers Josh (One Meat Ball) White, Burl (Blue Tail Fly) Ives and Woody (Ballads from the Dust Bowl) Guthrie, and jazz purists like Pianist Mary Lou Williams and Saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, and guitar-strumming Balladeer Richard Dyer-Bennet, singing Elizabethan love lyrics. His best sellers: Burl Ives, and an album of American country dances...
...sidelight to an earlier Truman-Churchill meeting was disclosed last week. At Potsdam the President gave a dinner for Churchill and Joseph Stalin, arranged for Pianist Eugene List to present a Chopin recital. Winston Churchill listened glumly for an hour, then said: "Mr. President, why don't you go home? I can't stand this noise much longer, and we can't leave until you do." Recalling the incident, Harry Truman related: "But I was enjoying the music. And we kept Churchill on the hot seat another hour...
...Pianist Rudolf Serkin, son-in-law of Adolf, rehearsed in Manhattan for a West Coast concert appearance before a European tour...