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Beethoven with Guitar Strings. In one camp, Goldberg assembled 14 violinists and a flutist, a piano with 19 keys missing, and a harmonium. Salvaging and pasting together scraps of toilet paper and margins from book leaves, and writing with only a tip of lead from a pencil, Goldberg scored from memory the entire Beethoven Violin Concerto for his little orchestra. He gave the woodwind and bass parts to the harmonium, and gave the piano "all the noise of an orchestra...
...crowded combination living room-den where wife Gertrude's furniture is pushed aside to make room for a grand piano, a harmonium and an easel, Schoenberg works at manuscripts magnified for his weak eyes. Until six years ago, he played avid tennis: "Then, suddenly, no one wanted to play with me." He realizes that his opponents knew he shouldn't be playing: his asthma is so bad that when Who's Who asked him to list his recreations several years ago "I was tempted to say 'oxygen inhaling...
James Thurber, world-weary artist-humorist (My World-and Welcome to It, My Life and Hard Times), was admitted to the dusty, plushy National Institute of Arts and Letters.* Also elevated: versifying Information Pleaser Franklin Pierce Adams, meticulous Poet Wallace Stevens (Harmonium), rumpled, ever-ready Poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin (Maine Ballads), left-winging Dramatist Lillian Hellman (Watch on the Rhine), New York Times Columnist Simeon Strunsky (Topics of The Times...
This struggle against the King and authoritarian regimes sobered Damaskinos, tempered his enthusiasms. In the monastery Damaskinos developed his only hobby: a friend from Chicago sent him a portable harmonium, and the lonely cleric, with his pet goat and dog beside him, learned to pick out the weirdly beautiful Gregorian chants...
...also the gayest. Never before have the folks who entertain the boys been so numerous or so notable; never have they worked so hard, traveled so far, risked so much. In the Middle East last week were Jack Benny, Larry Adler with his harmonica, Al Jolson with a harmonium; Ray Bolger was in the South Pacific, Judith Anderson in Hawaii. A while back Martha Raye went to the foxholes of Tunisia; and in New Guinea a show went on within earshot of the Japs. From the ranks of show business have sprung heroes and even martyrs,* but so far only...