Word: violinistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Annual Exhibition of Art by Musicians" opened last week at Manhattan's Museum of Science and Industry. Master of Ceremonies was Composer Deems Taylor, whose own efforts suggested to observers that he had best leave the silent arts to such an accomplished brushman as Chairman H. S. Maurer (violinist at Radio City Music Hall). Said Taylor at sight of Chairman Maurer's portrait of Nora: "My God, the man who did that must be a lousy musician...
...dictated its artistic policies with the relentlessness of a musical Robespierre. A woman of stern, uncompromising tastes, she decreed that the New Friends should have no stars, no intermissions, no encores, no flowers, no free passes. For her audiences she hired a few carefully selected soloists (Pianist Artur Schnabel, Violinist Joseph Szigeti and others) and a roster of the finest string quartet players...
...Manhattan's Town Hall dour Wanda Landowska took her bow in a harpsichord recital which critics pronounced the finest tinkling of its kind. At Carnegie Hall a recital by dignified Pianist Egon Petri followed the recital of an indomitable U.S. lady violinist, Byrd Elliot, who perennially performs before an audience that would scarcely strain the capacity of an average front parlor. Baritone Yves Tinayre, accompanied by a troop of dramatic dancers, moaned the music of medieval French masters in a recital which one critic described as "constricted cooing...
...hall may be thronged with applauding listeners. But the intake at the box office usually runs somewhere from $6.50 to a few hundred dollars. Concert names that are big enough to draw real money in Manhattan (Rachmaninoff, Menuhin, Kreisler, Hofmann) can be counted on ten fingers. Even famed Violinist Joseph Szigeti netted a mere $200 on a last year's Manhattan recital...
...were there to hear mop-maned Leopold Stokowski and the Los Angeles Philharmonic play Shostakovich's new Seventh (Leningrad) Symphony (TIME, July 20). Black-tailed musicians filed out in the jerry-built unpainted shell. When a shapely blonde violinist took her place in the rear row, the fun began. "Bring her up front," yelled the soldiers...