Word: moiseiwitsch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout the U. S. last week, many a musical citizen trilled on the keyboards of a Chickering, of a Knabe, of a Mason & Hamlin piano, all products of American Piano Co. factories. The Knabe is the official piano of the Metropolitan Opera Company; Jeritza, Ponselle, Titta Ruffo use it. Moiseiwitsch, Bauer, Ravel endorse Mason & Hamlin. The Chickering advertises itself as "essentially a piano for the home," is the oldest in the U. S.. was the favorite of Franz Liszt.* And almost all great pianists have made music rolls for the Ampico reproducing grands, which are also an American Piano...
Sued for Divorce. Daisy Kennedy, a violinist, by her husband, Benno Moiseiwitsch, the pianist. Moiseiwitsch named as co-respondent John Drinkwater, famed playwright...
...compensate, Mme, Samaroff played the Schumann A minor concerto. This concerto has been played often at Boston symphony concerts, and deservedly; every hearing renews the impression that it is one of the most beautiful things in piano literature. Two years ago Mr. Moiseiwitsch played it wonderfully; MM, Samaroff equalled his performance yesterday. The first movement as she gave it was fine as silk thread, warm, clear, lustrous; the remarkably fine execution of that very difficult syncopation in the last movement would alone have justified Mme, Samaroff's claim to the first rank of, musicianship. She is a superb artist...
Yesterday afternoon, in Symphony Hall, the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Monteux conducting, gave the third concert of its Friday afternoon series, Mr. Moiseiwitsch was the soloist...
...years ago Mr. Moiseiwitsch showed what a superb musician he is by playing the Schumann A minor concerto; yesterday he proved himself an equally fine technician in the Russian Teherepnins concerto. Particularly in whispered passages, Mr. Moiseiwitsch's tone seems unexcelled; in forte passages his (or the piano's) tone was less sympathetic. The orchestral parts of the concerto were not startling...