Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symphony (see above), the National Youth Administration radio orchestra, and an amateur symphony of his own in Harlem. At a Town Hall recital, Conductor Dixon made more news. He directed a 38-piece white outfit which he had founded-the New York Chamber Orchestra-in concertos with a debutante pianist, Vivian Rivkin...
...dreamed of snakes, his eyebrows almost scalp him. His mannerisms, down to the last flickering cheek-muscle, were learned at the movies; he is as full of polysyllables as a colored preacher. His girl, at the start, is Harriet Stevens, who hopes to become a concert pianist and whose mother is in the Social Register. He and Harriet "explore each other's minds," "experiment" in hypnosis, ether-sniffing and allied presexual sports. Their relationship is an unconscious parody of every style in love from "the scientific attitude" through "I-can-take-it" fiction. When they buy a canoe...
Divorced. Maria Zimbalist Goelet, 25, daughter of Violinist-Composer and new Curtis Institute Director Efrem Zimbalist and of oldtime Opera Singer Alma Gluck; and Ogden Goelet, 33, Newport and Manhattan socialite, amateur pianist; after three years' marriage; in Reno...
...there is nothing wrong with her, he says: "I'm sure you will feel differently when you leave this office." She does. Her happy marriage to a solidly normal insurance salesman (Melvyn Douglas) is disrupted by another of the doctor's patients (Burgess Meredith), a zany pianist badly in need of a few treatments...
...confused with Ernst Wolff, lieder singer, or Ernst Victor Wolff, pianist and harpsichordist...