Word: piano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the long-heralded composition, "Concerto in F" was played in Carnegie Hall; with Mr. Damrosch conducting, Mr. Gershwin at the piano, and all the fine fiddlers, horn-blowers and hide-thumpers of the Symphony Orchestra in attendance...
Conductor Damrosch beamed. At last the throaty and macabre yowl of modern America was about to be lifted into a new melodic line; patrons were about to learn that there is no modern music worth mentioning except the flawed melodies that a very old barroom piano, operated by a coin, can send tilting, spilling, staggering, into the languor of a summer twilight...
Next day Ignacio Zuloaga's portrait of Paderewski (including a sky of Zuloaga mauve, a grand piano, the eagle of Poland, and some law books on a stool) was exhibited at the Reinhardt Galleries. Mrs. Paderewski inspected it, apologizing for the absence of her husband. He had bruised his finger in the recital, she explained, and was confined to his apartment under the care of a physician...
...Phillips Brooks House Association will hold its customary informal Open House entertainment tomorrow evening from 7 o'clock to 10 o'clock. The program will include Scotch dialect readings by Miss Elizabeth Buchanan, and Negro selections by Miss Mamie Jones, both from the Emerson College of Oratory. Piano recitals, violin solos, a prestidigitation act, and vocal solos complete the program...
William David Upshaw, Congressman from Georgia, sitting on a piano stool, holding his crutches: "Mr. Chairman and fellow booze fighters-I am opposed to a campaign of law enforcement...