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Private Hardie Robbins, U.S.A., in civilian life a California high-school music teacher, was playing the piano in the White House. The piano was a beautiful thing-a Steinway concert grand with gilded eagle legs. He could bang it just as hard as he liked, play anything on it from Brahms, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to When You and I Were Young, Maggie. If he wanted Mrs. Roosevelt to listen, he had only...
Later, by letter, the First Lady invited him, when he was ready, to drop in for practice at the White House. Last week Hardie Robbins, now a regular caller, was flexing his hands at the gilded Steinway and looking forward to the time when they would once again be practiced enough so that Mrs. Roosevelt might listen...
With the air of the College of Cardinals electing a new Pope, the 32 members of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's board of directors last week filed out of their board room in Manhattan's Steinway Hall and announced the new holder of the most prestigious post in U.S. music. The post-musical director and conductor of the New York Philharmonic-will be filled by a Dalmatian-born Pole, Artur Rodzinski, bushy-haired, gangling present conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra...
Next day the New Opera's 100-odd youthful singers turned to polishing up their coming offerings: Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne, Verdi's Macbeth, Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame. They raised Steinway Hall's roof with incessant rehearsals. They were out to prove, once & for all, that opera does not have to be sung by middle-aged tenors and bulging contraltos. Between arias, they hotly argued this revolutionary' idea over hamburgers and milk in the 57th Street Automat. To the participants the New Opera is more than opera: it is a crusade. They came...
Dynamo that turns this enthusiasm into operatic production is intense, thickset, greying Yolanda Mero-lrion, wife of Hermann Irion, a Steinway Piano Co. executive, now a Washington dollar-a-year man. Impresario Irion first came to the U.S. in 1909 as a well-known concert pianist. After touring the world on a piano stool for 20 years, she settled down on her husband's estate in Rockland County, N.Y. During the depression Yolanda Irion discovered that 60% of unemployed musicians were singers. With wealthy Socialite Mrs. Lytle Hull, Mrs. Irion outlined a plan which would 1) put singers...