Word: steinway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week in Manhattan had upset his nerves. After the concert he returned in a panic to his hotel room, where he immediately started to practice for his second appearance. The other guests banged angrily on their radiator pipes. So he went out again, woke up the watchman at the Steinway Piano Company's warehouse, and spent the rest of the night practicing by candle-light in a loft where the pianos were stored...
...mingled horror and envy. Columbia's president draws his share of that feeling. But Judson loses no sleep over what his less successful rivals think of him. Looking like a Daily Worker caricature of a capitalist, he sits behind an enormous French walnut desk in Manhattan's Steinway Building, continuously smoking big Havana cigars. Says he: "Managers are employes of artists. An artist is perfectly free to hire any manager he wants." But when A. G. M. A. representatives last month wanted to look at Employe Judson's books (on the theory that the employer...
...grateful for myself and for a great many future Presidents," said Franklin Roosevelt as he accepted from Maker Theodore Steinway a new mahogany piano with legs carved like eagles to replace the gold monstrosity that has stood in the East Room since...
...Pianist Rosenthal, 25 and mopheaded, sat down to a piano in Manhattan's old Steinway Hall, crashed and rippled through Liszt's finger-punishing Don Juan Fantasia. Manhattan concertgoers, most of whom had never heard of him, gaped in awe at his flying fingertips. Next day the sedate critic of Manhattan's New York Tribune wrote: "It was a question whether an audience composed of discriminating music lovers in this city has ever been stirred to such a pitch of excitement...
...Royal Fraternity's headquarters, the Forum of Truth and the Center of Peace (a fairish-sized lecture room) in Manhattan's Steinway Hall. Mr. Schafer delivers four talks a week. Truth Students become Master Metaphysicians after studying more than a year and a half...