Huddy Johnson ( married Huddie M. Johnson , married O'Brien ; English O'Brien ; 1901 , Coldwater , MI - September 21, 1938 , Westhampton Beach , NY ) - American pianist.
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She graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory (1922) with a degree in Mary Bennet and Juilliard School from Karl Friedberg . In 1932, she became one of the winners of the Naumburg Competition for Young Performers , after which she performed on a solo evening in the New York Town Hall [1] .
She performed in different cities of the United States, receiving critical acclaim. So, regarding the performance of the Ernest Schelling Fantastic Suite for piano and orchestra on March 29, 1926, the urban newspaper noted that the young pianist’s “sparkling liveliness” ( English scintillating verve ) was combined with the “confidence and poise of an experienced master "( Eng. Certainty and poise of a veteran ) [2] . At the same time, Johnson taught at The layman's music courses as an assistant to Olga Samaroff [3] , led the department of courses for teaching children.
Drowned with her mother in her own house on the shore of Long Island during the Great Hurricane of 1938 [4] .
His sister, Helen Johnson , married Johnson-Windsor ( English Helen Johnson Windsor ; 1902-1964) - also a pianist and composer, who graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory (1926) with Mary Bennett and Juilliard school in the class of Carl Friedberg. In the 1930s She gave a lot of concerts, especially often performed on the radio stations WQXR and WNYC, then taught, the author of the operettas The Nightingale of the Emperor ( Eng. The Emperor's nightingale ; 1951) and The Adventures of Thumbelina ( Eng. The Adventures of Thumbelina ; 1953) based on the tales of the same name by H. H. Andersen .
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- ↑ Huddie Johnson makes New York debut // The Oberlin Alumni Magazine , Vol. XXIX, No. 7 (April, 1933), p. 211.
- ↑ News of the Alumni // The Oberlin Alumni Magazine , Vol. XXII, No. 8 (May, 1926), p. 27.
- ↑ Donna Staley Kline. An American Virtuoso on the World Stage: Olga Samaroff Stokowski. - Texas A&M University Press, 1997 .-- P. 173.
- ↑ Hurricane Kills Conservatory Graduate // The Oberlin Alumni Magazine , Vol. XXXV, No. 1 (October, 1938), p. 14.