Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favorite tabloid characters got married last week. The Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 36, wing-collared pastor of Harlem's big Abyssinian Baptist Church and New York's first Negro Congressman, took as a wife (his second) round-eyed, plump Hazel Scott, 25, Bach-to-boogie pianist. Their wedding should have been a tabloid editor's dream - a cast of stars, and a comedy of errors...
Then he joined the Society of Timid Souls, a three-year-old, self-help group, which meets in the Manhattan apartment of Bernard Gabriel, a nontimid concert pianist. Once a week for twelve merciless minutes, Lawson sang before an audience of 30 other "timid souls," who stared glassily, milled about, rang bells, booed. When he bowed for applause, they shouted that he was a ham. After a month of sweating it out, Lawson was ready to resume his career...
Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 4 in C Minor (Robert Casadesus and the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). French music brilliantly played by the French pianist, but not by the American orchestra. Recording: good...
...turned to the slight, gemlike songs of Debussy, Berlioz and Faure. After her divorce in 1931, she toured England and France with Pianist Alfred Cortot. She sang so artfully that listeners who knew no French thought that they knew what she was singing...
...Pianist Eddie Duchin lazy-fingers his way through The Music of George Gershwin (Columbia, 8 sides...