Index of Maryla Jonas material

Revised 10 May 2007.

Index of material on this site about the interesting pianist
Maryla Jonas (1911-1959)

The material on this site was transferred from an earlier site users.bigpond.net.au/nettheim which ends on 30 September 2009.

Please click on the year to read the material on-line.
Much of this material is quite hard to obtain elsewhere, one reason why I am making it available here.
The best article to read first is probably the 1947 Taubman one.
Contributions of more material would be welcome.

1946a Recital announcement. [Her first New York recital.]
1946b "Touchdown". Link to article in Time Magazine, 8 April 1946. New 10 May 2007
1946c Advertisement with Review. [Review by Olin Downes in the New York Times.]
1946d "She Shall Make Music", article in Newsweek. [As if a much abbreviated version of the 1947 Taubman article.]
1946e "Maryla Jonas, Pianist, In Debut Recording". [Record Review, Hartford Times, 1946.] New 27 April 2007
1946f "Maryla Jonas, Pianist, Displays Artistry in Local Debut". [Review from Philadelphia by Max de Schauensee.]
1947a "The Basic Purpose of Music Teaching", interview with The Etude magazine. [Long editorial introduction; fairly short remarks by Jonas on teaching.]
1947b "Lady Who Has Lived: The extraordinary story of Maryla Jonas", by Howard Taubman in Liberty magazine. [An amazing story.]
1948 Advertisement in Musical America. [Review excerpts.]
1949a Advertisement in Musical America. [Review excerpt.]
1949b "Maryla Jonas", by Gdal Saleski. [Similar to the 1947 Howard Taubman article, but shorter.]
1950a "Melody Recaptured" by Ann M. Lingg. [Apparently derived, with considerable freedom, from the 1947 Taubman article or the 1949 Saleski one.]
1950b Recital Program, Carnegie Hall, 4 February 1950, autographed. [A New York recital.]
1950c "New Records". [A review of a recording of Chopin mazurkas.]
1951a Recital Program, Carnegie Hall, 27 January 1951. [Recital in which Jonas fainted.]
1951b "Miss Jonas Faints at Recital Here", by R.P. [Review in a New York newspaper.]
1955 Excerpt on her recordings. [Two sentences only.]
1956a Recital Program, Carnegie Hall, 1 December 1956. [Her last New York recital.]
1956b "Recital offered by Maryla Jonas", by Edward Downes. [Review in the New York Times.]
1956c "Maryla Jonas Returns in Carnegie Hall Recital". [Review in the New York Herald Tribune.]
1959a Obituary from the New York Times.
1959b Obituary from the New York Herald Tribune.
2001 A discography of Maryla Jonas, by Nigel Nettheim. Revised 27 April 2007
2007 Link to article on Maryla Jonas in Wikipedia. New 10 May 2007

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