Word: soloist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Iturbi, hugely pleased, cut it with a swoop while Pianist Ernest Schelling looked on with greedy eye. Iturbi sneaked his portion away, took it back to his hotel and sent it, adorned with two candles, to his twelve-year-old daughter in Paris. Soon afterward he appeared as Philharmonic Soloist under Mengelberg, won the acclaim of critics and public alike. Last week he gave a Manhattan recital solo...
Rare is the symphony orchestra which has constantly at its command the services of a conductor who is also an adept soloist. Yet such an orchestra is the Detroit Symphony which last week made its annual visit to Manhattan. Detroit's double-barreled man is Ossip Gabrilowitsch, long famed as a pianist of the first order, famed since he began working in Detroit (1918) as an able conductor. His performance last week was to conduct Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach's brisk Concerto in D, followed with an uneven performance of Brahms' Fourth Symphony. Then, handing his baton...
...specialty act that will be presented for the first time is to be given by G. W. Briggs '31 and R. G. Edward '31. J. S. B. Archer '30, tenor soloist, will be featured in a group of folk-songs recently added to his repertoire and the Gold Coast Orchestra, under the direction of B. D. Hanighen '30, will contribute a few selections of dance music to the program...
...numbers have been added to the repertoire of the clubs, and these will be performed along with selections by the Hawaiian Trio, composed of Eustis Dearborn '32, R. S. Watson '32, and R. B. Harrison '32, DeWitt Stetten Jr. '30, magician, and J. S. B. Archer '30, tenor soloist will be individual performers on the program...
...person Graham McNamee is lean, light-haired, with prominent nose and upper teeth. Born in Washington, D. C. in 1889, he grew up to be a semiprofessional baseballer in St. Paul, Minn. Then he found his baritone voice was better than his throwing arm. He was a church soloist in Bronxville, N. Y. where he romantically won his wife with the aid of an elopers' ladder. Called one day for jury duty in Manhattan, he found himself near No. 195 Broadway, then headquarters of WEAF. He walked in, took a voice test, got a job. Fame came quickly...