Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cruft Officers night at Pops Sunday was even bigger and better than last year. As Jesus Maria San Roma, the famous pianist, sat, fingers poised over the keys and Fieldler lifted his baton, and the whole audience sat hushed and intent on listening to Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto Number 2 in C Minor, "Pop!" went the cork of a champagne botite. A giggle gained momentum as it spread throughout Symphony Hall...
...divided into three smaller groups with a guide for each. The tour began in the Venetian Court Yard, which is particularly spectacular at this season with a brilliant assortment of flowers, and was followed by a musical in the Tapestry rooms, with Miss Virginia Raymond, contralto, and Reginald Boardman, pianist, in joint concert...
...Southern Pacific. They got Kid Ory, greatest of oldtime tailgate* trombonists, from Los Angeles, where he had been raising chickens. They tracked down Clarinetist Wade Whaley at the Moore shipyards on San Francisco Bay. Ringing doorbells in San Francisco's Negro section, they finally located Bertha Gonsoulin, onetime pianist for Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver. They added local Negro talent...
...should be made in the case of some transcriptions which were made with better discrimination and taste. The Bach Chaconne in D Minor as originally written, stands as one of the bulwarks in any competent violinist's repertoire. As it stands today, it is also established in any competent pianist's repertoire, for the transcription by Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni is second to none in transferring the mood and music accurately to the piano. The Brahms-Haydn Variations, written originally for two pianos, and Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition," originally written for piano, have also profited by transcription...
Beethoven: Concerto No. 5 ("Emperor") (Chicago Symphony, Frederick Stock conducting, with Artur Schnabel, pianist; Victor; 10 sides). Schnabel, as usual, gets inside...