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Scheduled for Stravinsky's second week, Beveridge Webster had been asked to play the first night when Samuel Dushkin took sick and had to give up the violin concerto originally announced. Young Webster made his emergency performance so technically telling that few could remember it was done in a pinch. For Pianist Webster, this performance with the Philharmonic was more historic than it was for Stravinsky. For him at 28, it capped a career already prodigious...
Beveridge Webster was born in Pittsburgh where his father was director of the Pittsburgh Conservatory of Music and taught music analysis for many years. When Beveridge reached five, his father began to teach him piano. At eight, young Beveridge astonished a private audience from the Conservatory by playing, with his mother, a Beethoven sonata for four hands...
Married- Claude Benson Pepper, 36, Florida's new Towsendite-Democratic U. S. Senator; and Irene Mildred Webster, of St. Petersburg; in St. Petersburg...
...sentimental costume drama, dated 1875, in which the cinema's No. 1 boy soprano lifts his clear and bell-like voice through a gamut of songs from Ave Maria to Swanee River, from The Flower Song by Dr. Hugo Reisenfeld to Rainbow on the River by Paul Webster & Louis Alter. When not adroitly playing his own accompaniments on an adult size banjo. Soprano Breen shows himself past master of vaudeville song-plugging technique, including clenched fists, rolling eyes and trembling smile...
Weird, TIME? We? "Strange, wild, or unearthly" my Webster's defines the word. If this is your understanding also, you must have us mixed up with a couple of other fellows...