Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week with a party celebrating French liberation. She had sent out the invitations in early August, while the Allies were still in Normandy. Said she: "I just had a hunch-anyway, France is very close to my heart. Some of my best parties were given there." Among the entertainers: Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Ballerina Alicia Markova, Funnyman Danny Kaye, Songstress Judy Garland. Cinemactor Charles Boyer (reciting La Marseillaise), Elsa herself (playing the Star-Spangled Banner). Among the guests: blue-haired Internationalist Lady Mendl, red-haired Greer Garson, black-haired Authoress Anita Loos, cigar-ash-grey-color haired Evalyn Walsh McLean (with...
...liberated Parisians, French musical culture began to be heard from. Most of the musicians, French and foreign, who had made Paris a prewar center of musical fashion had escaped into exile. Among those still in the U.S. were Composers Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Bohuslav Martinu, Conductor Pierre Monteux, Pianist Robert Casadesus, Piano Teacher Isidor Philipp...
Chief among these in world prestige was probably the brilliant 66-year-old pianist Alfred Cortot. He had a bad record. An outspoken advocate of Vichy, he had been named State Director of Music under Petain, had played widely in Germany. Last week Cortot was released from F.F.I, custody because of age, failing health, and a record of occasional efforts to keep young French musicians from service in Hitler's labor battalions...
...Albeneri Trio is made up of Alexander Schneider, former second violinist for the world-famous Budapest String Quartet, Benar Heifetz, first cellist for the NBC Symphony, and Erich Kahn, well-known pianist-composer...
...oldtime movie pianist, Ruben studied composition at New York University, today teaches twelve hours a day, partly at Bayonne's Technical High School...