Word: virtuoso
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Historic is the White House party at which Tommy the Cork, playing his accordion and singing his ballads, charmed the Great Charmer. His tenor voice is honey smooth. His quick mind and tongue have a tenoctave range, from airiest wit to profoundest judicial deliberation. He handles people as a virtuoso plays a violin. Beneath his silkiness lies a mental toughness, a counterpart of the muscular toughness that enabled him to build a cabin on Mt. Washington with his two hands, makes him a tireless mountain skier and climber, lets him work 20 hours a day for weeks at a stretch...
Even today few piano accordion squeezers rank as virtuosos. But this week, after an accordion recital in Philadelphia's staid Academy of Music, Philadelphia critics admitted that their townsman, dark, 30-year-old Andy Arcari, could claim the title. Accordionist Arcari, who had given previous recitals in Pittsburgh and Toledo, played a program ranging from Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue to Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen. Said Critic Henry Pleasants: "Here was a brilliance in scale and arpeggio passages that many a violinist or pianist could envy." Virtuoso Arcari, who makes most of his living teaching and playing...
William Primrose (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Red). No. i Viola Virtuoso plays William Walton's Concerto with NBC Symphony under direction of BBC's Sir Adrian Boult...
TCHAIKOVSKY: PIANO CONCERTO IN B FLAT MAJOR (London Philharmonic; Columbia: 8 parts). Virtuoso war-horse brilliantly played by Dutch Pianist Egon Petri...
CONCERT PITCH-Elliot Paul-Random House ($2.50). Subtle, simply written novel of the post-War Paris musical world, brilliantly dramatizing the doom of the virtuoso, the dissonant emergence of a new machine age; by the author of last year's distinguished surprise bestseller, The Life and Death of a Spanish Town...