Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gilda Hoffman '54 will be soloist with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in its spring concert on May 15. The 18-year-old Saville House pianist won the role with her playing of a Mozart concerto in Paine Hall last Thursday during a special competition sponsored by the Pierian Sodality Orchestra...
...judges, Walter H. Piston '24, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, Allen D. Sapp, Jr., instructor in music, and Russell T. Stanger, conductor of the orchestra, also chose pianist June C. Robert '52 and violinist Barbara Sorenson '52 as alternates...
...Victor; 10 LP singles). The third installment of a big selection of vintage jazz, reissued on LP, often in recordings that sound better than the originals (less surface noise, etc.). Titles of individual records: Benny Goodman Trio (Clarinetist Goodman, Pianist Teddy Wilson, Drummer Gene Krupa); Lionel Hampton; Earl Hines-Bitty Eckstine; Metronome All-Star Bands; Sidney Bechet; Jelly-Roll Morton; McKinney's Cotton Pickers; Great Trumpet Artists (Louis Armstrong, Bunny Berigan, Roy Eldridge, Bix Beiderbecke, Bunk Johnson, Dizzy Gillespie); Great Tenor Sax Artists (Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, Bud Freeman, Illinois Jacquet, Ben Webster, Charlie Ventura); Artie Shaw Favorites...
This Is Jazz (Muggsy Spanier; Circle, 2 sides LP). More honky-tonk classics, as recorded from radio broadcasts. Among Cornettist Spanier's helpers are Pianist Joe Sullivan, Trombonist George Brunis, Drummer Baby Dodds. Among the best numbers: A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Muskrat Ramble, Jada...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Guest soloist: Pianist Myra Hess; Mitropoulos conducting...