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Word: pianists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columbia's "A Song to Remember" combines lush technicolor with the music of Frederic Chopin in a pleasant, if unauthentic, representation of the famous pianist-composer's life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 2/6/1945 | See Source »

...Trumans have been guests at Mrs. McLean's before, but not the guests of honor. Mrs. McLean's parties are different now. She serves California wine, usually a clear soup, frequently skips the fish course. The Trumans like cards and music, so there will be bridge. Pianist Evelyn Tynor will play, and Tenor Lauritz Melchior will be there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Social Life of Harry T. | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

Composer Foss is now 22, and well on his way. Pianist for the Boston Symphony, he has already won a Manhattan Music Critics' citation and a $1,500 Pulitzer fellowship. Last summer, he conducted a Stadium performance of the Philharmonic. He says that he wants people to forget his German birth, his French music-student days. Says he: "I want to be considered an American composer. I want to be one of the boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Champagne & Cornbread | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...Victor discs. Columbia followed with Harry James's The Love I Long For and 500,000 copies of White Christmas, sung by Frank Sinatra. On the classical front, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz got there first with recordings of the Schubert and Bach-Gounod Ave Marias (Columbia); runner-up was Pianist José Iturbi's recording of Morton Gould's Boogie Woogie Etude (Victor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Record Revival | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...heavy schedule of voluntary entertainment for servicemen, a movie (Weekend at the Waldorf) in the making, Author-Actress Maxwell commutes frequently between her Waldorf apartment and Hollywood, where she lives with Evalyn Walsh McLean and the Hope diamond. Having been at one time or other in her career a pianist, composer, vaudevillian, singer, music critic, impresario and hotel keeper, she now describes herself as homeless, without a possession in the world, and terribly busy. Fortnight hence, after the Dec. 7 premiere of her "beloved crony" Cole Porter's new musical Seven Lively Arts, she plans to give a party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Elsa at War | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

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