Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among these booklets (price 50?) are: a quixotic Christmas story about a dog named Lulu illustrated by Cartoonist Jane Miller; an anecdotal account of a Christmas party in the bleak Alaskan wilderness by Rockwell Kent; a book of Van Loony pictures and Christmas carols by Hendrik van Loon and Pianist Grace Castagnetta...
...social and protest blues," was beginning to take effect on listeners like Conductor Wilfred Pelletier of the Metropolitan Opera. Soon Benny Goodman arrived, said "Hi" to the assembled thinkers and blew into his clarinet. In the early dawn he was still going strong. So were Mouth-Organist Larry Adler, Pianist Alec Templeton, and the dogged panel of classicists. By that time the classicists more or less agreed: it would be all right for Manhattan's Station WQXR to broadcast blues...
...sides from Walt Disney's Dumbo, and eleven Bluebird (Victor's cheaper label) albums. Seven of the eleven albums are the work of Helen Myers, who is the Rodgers & Hart of pint-sized music. Miss Myers, onetime Oklahoma City Junior Leaguer, Phi Beta Kappa, concert and jive pianist (a year at Manhattan's Rainbow Room), composer of moderately successful popular songs, has been with Victor for two years, dreaming up ideas for the children's list. In the current lot are: Long-Name-No-Can-Say (about a Chinese baby with a long name); One String...
...Pianist Yaltah Menuhin, 20, Violinist Yehudi's youngest sister, eloped to Reno from her parents' home in Los Gatos, Calif., with Private Benjamin Rolfe, 27. Yaltah, who divorced Attorney William Stix last year, soon parted with her groom who returned to Fort Ord to be tossed into the guardhouse for going AWOL. Papa Menuhin withheld his blessing, explained: "It will take time to swallow and digest the news." Private Rolfe, unabashed and "utterly unmusical," declared: "There is enough musical genius in that family already...
Boris Goldovsky, of Cleveland, noted pianist, conductor, and lecturer in the field of music, will deliver two free, public lectures on "The Riddle of Musical Tempo" in the Music Building at Harvard, under the auspices of the Department of Music, Wednesday, November 5, and Friday, November 7, at 8:15 o'clock...