Word: topnotch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When concertgoers hear a pianist who combines technical finish with sound understanding of a score, they open their eyes. More rarely do they find duo-pianists of such perfection. Last week in Manhattan two topnotch teams of duo-pianists played a day apart. Music lovers were still glowing over the distinguished performance of Ethel Bartlett & Rae Robertson when two debutant Russian pianists sat down at pianos in Town Hall and played with such breathtaking clarity, such subtle and unanimous changes of pace, that New Yorkers cheered again...
...wealthy, retired Opera Singer Mme Emma Loeffler de Zaruba to help build a grand opera association in Los Angeles. At the in stance of Mme de Zaruba, a little doubt fully, Impresario Frank picked young James Guthrie to conduct. On the crucial night, most of the town's topnotch musicians were tied up with the Philharmonic...
...will appear daily to auction his trees by carload or by bundle to wholesale or retail buyers. His voice may be drowned out by that of his rival, Izzy Cloobeck, who can be heard three miles on a tranquil day, but Gust's trees are known to be topnotch...
...Association had decided to do so again. For female tennists at least, last week's tournament might well have rated as the No. i event of the year. In it were entered four members of the team that last June defeated England in the Wightman Cup matches; the topnotch players of Japan and England; a group of youngsters better than any who could be assembled elsewhere in the world; and Helen Jacobs...
...Siena declined in art and war, Florence grew great. Transition painter in Cleveland's show is Lorenzo Monaco, Siena-born, Florence-bred. He was followed by a virile stampede of topnotch Florentine painters : Filippo Lippi, Piero di Cosimo, Andrea del Castagno, Fra Angelico, Andrea del Sarto, all at Cleveland and all masters of form who had graduated from the childish mysticism of the Gothic. In Venice and Genoa, however, the Gothic spirit hung on a little longer in the magical paintings of Crivelli, Lotto, Magnasco and Strozzi. Lotto's Pieta is one of Cleveland's most striking...