Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paul Nordoff, angular, wirehaired, blond Philadelphian, has been better heeled than most young composers. He has won two Guggenheim fellowships worth about $4,500, took last year's $1,500 Pulitzer scholarship, is a teacher at the Philadelphia Conservatory. Composer Nordoff. who would have become a concert pianist had he not found that he was expected to study showy trash like Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, has written two piano concertos, a Whitmanesque Secular Mass, a Polynesian opera, the music for Katharine Cornell's production of Romeo and Juliet. Last week a Philadelphia production...
There Hilda Emery Davis, the band leader's wife, composes, collects books and manuscripts, notably Byroniana. An able pianist, she played with the Davis orchestra in the early Bar Harbor days, says she hated him, married him after three years of it. For the Du Pont-Roosevelt wedding, at which Mr. Davis played, Mrs. D. wrote a piece called You Are the Reason for My Love Song. A sister-in-law of Conductor Pierre Monteux, she had a serious composition, The Last Knight, performed by the NBC Symphony, with M. Monteux conducting...
...five Davis youngsters: Virginia Faith, who studies voice; Meyer Jr., who fiddles and may follow his father's course; Garry, a trumpeter; Emery, a composer-pianist; Marjorie, a pianist. The Davis family assembles on Sundays, if at no other time, always eats the same dinner, a good one ranging from cheese souffle to ice cream, Madeira and coffee...
...Szigeti's favorite game is listening to the radio, labeling compositions and performers. Sharp-eared, sharp-minded Szigeti has had some notable successes, as checkups proved, in identifying a player's background (a violinist was "a pupil of a pupil of Auer"), or guessing at a lady-pianist's love-life (none...
Bach: Piano Pieces (Pianist Grace Castagnetta; Victor; 8 sides) and The Life and Times of Johann Sebastian Bach (a book) by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Simon and Schuster). A new stunt in packaging: the two items, by a pair who have collaborated in other musico-literary ventures, sell for $5 boxed. Miss Castagnetta plays the music not too warmly. Mr. van Loon is probably the off-dashing-est of Bach's many biographers (best: Julius August Philipp Spitta, 19th Century German scholar; Dr. Albert Schweitzer, organist and missionary in Africa), illustrates the mighty J. S.'s life with...