Word: piano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week. Armed with a court decision, police dispersed picket lines at three mills (Whitman, Nonquit, Nashawena). By afternoon of the same day, radicals had defied the order against mass picketing, dared police to make arrests. Chief of Police McLeod took the dare, commandeered patrol wagons, moving carts, one ludicrous piano van. He packed 256 picketeers off to headquarters. Citizens noted that 237 of the 256 belonged to the Weisbord element...
Another new thing for him was the première of his new composition, "To a Nordic Princess." His first public concerts were at the piano, when he was 10, in Melbourne, his birthplace. His mother taught him the instrument. Later she accompanied him on tours on all the continents. In Norway he became the friend of the late Edward Hagerup Grieg. He was chosen to play the Grieg Piano Concerto at the Leeds Festival (1907), and after Grieg's death he played Memorial concerts for him at Copenhagen and London. To Grieg, Percy Grainger owes his start...
...Serenades are given once a week at Arnold, Constable's to the department that has exceeded its week's quota of sales. A small rolling piano and several professional singers invade the department leading in sales for the week and proceed to sing its praises in terms of popular songs. Unfortunately customers are not in on this; it takes place in the morning, just before the store opens...
...wings of a theatre at Potsdam, Germany, a flossy pianist began to play. What he played was transmitted by telephone to the ears of the members of an orchestra in Berlin 17 miles away. They followed the piano on their various instruments; what they played was transmitted to Potsdam by another telephone and then amplified so as to fill the theatre in the wings of which the flossy pianist was softly strumming. On the stage of the theatre an opera company sang to the music of the Berlin orchestra, thus successfully completing an experiment which would, Berlin officials suggested, make...
Efrem Zimbalist, famed violinist, sat at the piano while a perky little person stood beside him playing the violin. They played a short concerto; then the little fellow took the applause while the great violinist stood in the background...