Word: steinways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...husband and a wife gave an all-German program at Steinway Hall, Manhattan, last week. The husband, Otto Klemperer, tall guest conductor of the New York Symphony, lifted no baton that night. Dramatic, he sat at the piano; his long fingers played accompaniments to four songs of his own composition, while his wife, Johanna Klemperer, sang. Her voice, except when she lifted it above F sharp, was rich, colorful, expressive. The song "Es war ein Koenig in Thule" was the most original...
...student stringed orchestra, by a group of amateurs factiously styled the Kadenza Kids. The Kadenza Kids were Music Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times, Novelist-Critic John Erskine (Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad) and his daughter Rhoda, and Ernest Urchs, a partner of the Steinway Co. Their object: to raise money for the MacDowell Colony* at Peterborough...
...Theodore Steinway, piano maker:* "Last week two post cards, mailed simultaneously last October, reached the Collectors' Club, Manhattan, after a haste-post-haste trip in opposite directions around the world. My card, bearing a picture of Governor Smith, arrived first, after a westbound trip to San Francisco, Tokyo, London. The other card, mailed by Hugh Clark, stamp collector, bore a picture of President Coolidge, and arrived four hours later in Manhattan, after an eastbound trip to London, Tokyo, San Francisco...
...behind a tall iron fence in a ten-acre park at Parthia, Ill. Myra, an orphan, was John Driscoll's great-niece and he brought her up there, a forceful, coarse old Irishman and a vivid, a wild little girl. She had jewels and many gowns and a Steinway piano. She rode keen horses. The town band played at her parties and serenaded John Driscoll on his birthday; he had bought the bandsmen their silver instruments and when they played for him he treated with his best whiskey. He had wrung a great fortune out of contract labor...
...Manhattan, last week, high in New Steinway Hall, clerks of the Stadium Concert Management sorted letters, thousandsof them, neatly typewritten letters, smudgily scrawled letters, letters from Manhattan, letters from far away, from tired city folk, from vacationists taking their Stadium concerts by radio. Into piles they put them to be counted ballot-wise to make up a concluding "request" night program. Tchaikovsky was first. The program: Pathetic Symphony (Tchaikovsky); Don Juan (Richard Strauss) ; Tales of the Vienna Woods (Johann Strauss); 1812 Overture (Tchaikovsky...