Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They fell in love in Johannesburg. Bennie Hermer was the young resident physician in Durban's King Edward VIII Hospital. Olda Mehr was a concert pianist, pretty, 18, with glowing black eyes. When she won the Royal Music Academy Award in 1938, she sailed for London, promising she would come back in a year to be married...
Three thousand Negroes stirred restlessly on their wooden chairs in Harlem's huge Golden Gate Ballroom. The white-robed, white-gloved, white-carnationed Negro choir on the gold-&-blue velveted stage let go with Hallelujah! Hallelujah! The pianist took off. The congregation began to clap to. the beat. The clarinet rode away from the melody. A little old Negro woman, her wrinkled neck twitching like a cock's comb, sprang into the air and screamed. All over "the auditorium black heads bobbed ecstatically as if mounted on pogo sticks. From the stage rose the voice of the evangelist...
...newscasting audition for a Los Angeles drugstore chain. Fiery, mustachioed Sidney Sutherland, 52, retired journalist (New York Sun, Chicago Tribune), magazine writer (Liberty) and Hollywood scenarist, did not quite have what Thrifty Drug Stores wanted. Neither did squat, calm José Rodriguez, 42, native Guatemalan, onetime concert pianist, city editor (Los Angeles Herald...
...Friends of Music was founded by a smart Manhattan business executive named Ira A. Hirschmann (vice president of Bloomingdale's department store) in order to impress a lady pianist he wanted to marry. Some men buy their prospective brides platinum rings. Black-haired Ira Hirschmann gave Pianist Hortense Monath the New Friends to play with...
...hand, Wife Hortense dictated its artistic policies with the relentlessness of a musical Robespierre. A woman of stern, uncompromising tastes, she decreed that the New Friends should have no stars, no intermissions, no encores, no flowers, no free passes. For her audiences she hired a few carefully selected soloists (Pianist Artur Schnabel, Violinist Joseph Szigeti and others) and a roster of the finest string quartet players...