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...Traumerei" and the "Blue Danube." In all the show, few persons noticed a square-set ruddy-cheeked old gentleman who twice during the concert slipped in at the back and looked pleased to see that everything was going smoothly. He was Henry Junge, 75, who in the name of Steinway & Sons has purveyed music to the White House through six administrations...
...unique as the House of Steinway and its position in the piano industry* is the function, all unadvertised, which Henry Junge exercises in Washington. Presidents, unlike kings, may not favor any one commercial house but the White House has to have a piano and in 1902 when Theodore Roosevelt accepted the $18,000 Steinway Gold Grand "in behalf of the nation," the die was cast. White House musicales began soon after. Mrs. Taft, who taught at the Cincinnati College of Music before she married, asked the Steinways to put them on. They looked around their office for some one both...
With Mr. Junge the First Ladies' musical reputations have been safe. He prefers to talk about his farm in Newburgh, N. Y., where he grows grapes and makes wine; or about the House of Steinway for which he was working when the present Steinway heads wore knickerbockers and the factory sprawled over the corner of Manhattan...
...artist's standing with Steinway has nothing to do with a White House invitation. But it happens that a Steinway protege holds the record for having been asked there most often. He is Ignace Jan Paderewski, whom the Steinways first brought to the U. S. He has played for five successive administrations but this season his neuritis is too bad for him to leave his home in Switzerland. Compared with him, the Morgan Sisters were thoroughly unexciting for the season's White House opener but they were Mrs. Roosevelt's choice and she will make...
...Since 1850 when Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg left Germany to set up business in New York, the House of Steinway has been a closed corporation, run by men who were either Steinways by birth or marriage. The first piano Heinrich made had two strings. He gave it to his wife for a wedding present...