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496:, UK: The highest of the week-end high spots on the wireless was Katharine Goodson's performance of the Greig Concerto with the BBC Orchestra last night. There was the sympathetic insight of the cultured artist in her interpretation, and a touch that was both resolute and pliable in her performance. I cannot remember when a piano forte artist came over better.
550:, Hungary: The piano playing of Katharine Goodson is a genuinely monumental art, which we today, among the names of women pianists, can only associate with those of Theresa Carreno and Sofie Menter. Our eminent guest played the F Minor of Brahms in such a broadly conceived spirit and with such a gripping rhythm and power as would have done honour to d'Albert.
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wrote: âWe had ten rat-bats in our room that night, innumerable lizards on the walls and mosquitoes ad infinitum. We wrapped our heads in scarves, but I can truthfully say I do not think I lost consciousness for five minutes during that longest night I have ever spent, for it was a succession of swoops, and creeps, and bites! Ugh!â
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On arrival in Boston, a newspaper printed a light-hearted story about an expensive and naive trip
Goodson had made to a Monte Carlo casino. Two elderly spinsters promptly returned their tickets saying that âthey did not know that Katharine Goodson was that kind of girl!â Goodson wrote: âI felt that I
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America, performing at fundraising concerts for the Red Cross and Canadian prisoners of war. In all, her international career took her to North America over a total of seven separate tours, including two world tours that she shared with the Australian soprano Dame
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The appearance nearly didn't happen. While making the
Atlantic crossing, two days from Boston, her ship encountered a hurricane and a piece of ice, broken away from icebergs further north, crashed through the heavy plate glass of Goodson's stateroom window as she was resting before dinner, landing
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American tour that Goodson furthered her horizons with a tour of Jamaica in early 1915. Critical acclaim was again poured on her, although it was a night encounter at Parson Green's Mission House in a roofless room that perhaps made the greater impression on Goodson. She
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Goodson to Vienna, was especially close to her and Goodson was bereft when, early in her career, Ethel moved to Hungary to become a governess, claiming that without her âthere seemed no one to whom I could have a real heart to heart talk and who would
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American tour of 1930: âI am filled with the same love, which neither time, nor space, nor anything that life may bring will ever have power to changeâ.
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in Vienna. Her London debut took place on 16 January 1897. The tours of Europe which followed placed her in the front rank of British female pianists of the era. Goodson made her American debut on 18 January 1907, appearing as soloist with the
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was present and immediately engaged her to play with his Kneisal Quartette at further concerts in Boston and New York. Through this relationship Goodson became instrumental in the American popularisation of her composer husband
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490:, UK: Katharine Goodson's performance in the Tschaikowsky Concerto was the other big event of the evening. The Concerto was all radiance, romantic, exuberant, idyllic, heroic, flamboyant: a furore followed.
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514:, Canada: To be capable of perfection in such gems of musical art establishes Miss Goodson among the genuine artists.
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520:, Australia: She is indeed the feminine counterpart of that most perfect of all pianists, Paderewski.
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