Search Details

Word: zitherist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Zither (Ruth Welcome; Cook). Zitherist Welcome captures some of the faded charm of Old Vienna (even in Greensleeves and September Song) and the recording captures some of the sweetest sounds on disks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, may 3, 1954 | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

This Is Europe (Sun. 10 p.m., Mutual). Music of Austria, featuring Baritone Paul Schoeffler and Zitherist Anton Karas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jan. 30, 1950 | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...Fallen Idol) had worked into his new smash hit, The Third Man. The picture demanded music appropriate to post-World War II Vienna, but Director Reed had made up his mind to avoid schmalzy, heavily orchestrated waltzes. In Vienna one night Reed listened to a wine-garden zitherist named Anton Karas, was fascinated by the jangling melancholy of his music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Zither Dither | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...final day, 2,000 zither-loving Teutons crowded into the Rochester Masonic Auditorium for the concert. Feature of the program was four favorite zither compositions by late Zither Composer Henry Wormsbacher. Though not up to the standard of world's No. 1 Zitherist Ferdinand Kollmaneck of Leipzig, Maximillian Veith plinked excellently, got a big hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Zither Congress | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

| 1 |