Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Franz Schubert died. He was one of 14 children of a schoolmaster and a cook. He himself had tried to be a schoolmaster but teaching tormented him and instead he scribbled music. When he died, at 31, he left some 600 songs, 6 masses, 2 sacred cantatas, 24 piano sonatas, 20 string quartets, 18 dramatic works, 10 symphonies and personal effects valued at $10. Last week, under the leadership of the Columbia Phonograph Co., Europe and the U.S. celebrated the Centennial of his death...
...Polka de W. R." and "Troika en Traineaux" are characteristic piano recordings of Rachmaninoff. Beautifully recorded...
Marvelous rhythm, preserved with ruba and piano, and picked by Red Hall's Cotton Pickers. CHERRY, and SOME SWEET DAY. One of the Better records...
Last week when Efrem Zimbalist appeared in Manhattan for the first time in two years, he played some of his own work, a G Minor sonata for violin and piano, a suite by Joseph Achron. Then he played the Glazunov Concerto in A Minor...
...never missed a performance. Her public (she used to call it pooblic) must not be disappointed, and to bear out the principle she sang a concert once in Brooklyn on one foot, the other so badly sprained she had to be carried on the stage and propped against the piano. Yet trembling with fatigue when it was over she could still make a joke. Bent and looking infinitely pathetic: "Won't someone do something for a poor old prima donna...