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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While long-nosed Wanda Landowska was giving brilliant, vigorous, scholarly performances of C. P. E. Bach in Toronto last week (see col. 2), Leopold Stokowski was busy in Manhattan with Johann Sebastian Bach's tremendous St. Matthew Passion. He turned it into a weird theatrical spectacle that reminded Bach scholars of the audience reaction to the first performance in Leipzig's Thomaskirche in 1729. At that time a scandalized old lady rose to her feet and exclaimed: "God help us! It's surely an opera comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: J. S. in Manhattan | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Recital Mill | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

Nothing At All-Wanda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Married. Oetje (rhymes with peachy) John Rogge, 36, redheaded. Assistant Attorney General who ably hounded State and local grafters in New Orleans, Kansas City. Detroit; and Wanda Johnston, 34; he for the second time; at Des Moines. Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 23, 1940 | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

Only three other pianists (all world-famed veterans) could top his earning power: Ignace Jan Paderewski, Josef Hofmann and Sergei Rachmaninoff. In 1933 he joined music's royal family by marrying Wanda Toscanini, daughter of the world's No. 1 Maestro. By 1935 he had sold out 350 U. S. concerts. At $1,500 a performance, his concerts were grossing $300,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pianist's Return | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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