Word: rachmaninoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, sailing for Europe, aired his views on nine-year-old Pianist Ruth Slenczynski. "All these public appearances are bad for her. And I told her father so. The audiences applaud even when there are mistakes, and eventually the child will not bother to correct mistakes...
...sufficient number of seats to make them want to buy again. Artists' fees are lower this year with a few exceptions. So are seats. Bookings are bigger than the New York managers expected. Lily Pons had to turn down 40 dates. Lawrence Tibbett has 51; Kreisler and Rachmaninoff, 33 each; Yehudi Menuhin, 28 (all his parents will let him play); Heifetz, 26, Zimbalist, Harold Bauer and Gabrilowitsch, expert musicians whose box-office power has never been sensational, have in the neighborhood of 30. Nathan Milstein has 33; Nelson Eddy, 37; Rose Bampton, 40. Cancellations were last year...
...Ladies and their programs have. The first Mrs. Wilson and Margaret, who had a pretty voice, took great pride in helping plan the musicales. Mrs. Harding, whose favorite piece was "The End of a Perfect Day," was less interested. Mrs. Coolidge, who plays the piano a bit herself, liked Rachmaninoff and Violinist Albert Spalding. Mrs. Hoover's favorite musician was Harpist Mildred Dilling, whose most famed pupil is Harpo Marx...
...piano. It had to have short, strong legs to suit a heavy, stumpy little man like Beethoven, a comfortable back so that the player could sit relaxed and let his shoulder muscles work for him. Nowhere in New York was such a chair to be found. Pianists like Rachmaninoff and Iturbi who depend mostly on their wrists use stools without backs. Paderewski and Hofmann who play more from their shoulders use chairs with backs which tip forward a little. None of these suited Artur Schnabel, the square-headed little Austrian who was to solo with the Philharmonic-Symphony. Finally...
...hurt Karl Muck when she ousted him on an unproven Wartime charge of pro-Germanism. After the Revolution. Russia forced most of her musicians into exile. Many years will pass before Russia regains the musical prestige it lost with such refugees as Feodor Chaliapin, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofieff, Sergei Rachmaninoff...