Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bull Fiddler. Koussevitzky has taken few of life's bumps. One good reason has been Natalya Konstantinovna Koussevitzkaya, his pleasant, portly, beak-nosed Russian wife. Koussevitzky is her career. Once a sculptress, she has not only spent the best part of her life smoothing out her husband's path; she also played an important part in putting him on the path in the first place...
Like many a successful conductor's wife, Natalya Konstantinovna was a woman of means. Together they financed an orchestra for Koussevitzky to practice on, and gave a series of concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The Koussevitzky Concerts began to catch on with the Russian public. The Koussevitzkys chartered a ferryboat, made a tour of the Volga. By 1910 Koussevitzky was the most widely-known maestro in Tsarist Russia. Meanwhile he had started a publishing house for music by contemporary Slavic composers, published for the first time (thus, incidentally, sparing himself the performance royalties) works by such famed artists...
...life. It was a low opinion, but subsequent events did nothing to change it. He became successively a bellhop, an elevator boy, a croupier, a soldier, a jewel thief, a card sharp. Women came and went: the countess in the hotel at Monte Carlo, a beautiful blonde burglar, the wife who won consistently at roulette until he married her, then lost just as steadily. (During the course of his tale, an old lady enters the café and sits next to the frowzy storyteller. He recognizes her for the Monte Carlo countess, but tries to prevent her from recognizing...
...bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach; not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous...
...fortnight he virtually lived in Studio 9, on call 15 hours a day. He slept at the nearby Harvard Club (his Brooklyn home was too far away) or in his office across the hall from the studio itself. His blue-eyed wife. Baroness Olga von Norden-flycht, brought hot food and coffee to his desk, occasionally led him outdoors for a walk and fresh air. His earliest broadcast was at 5 a. m., his latest at 11 p. m. After each talk he received a batch of letters. Their gist: in times of stress, listeners prefer conclusions and even bias...