Word: kochanski
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beethoven Symphony Orchestra struck financial snags last week. Unpaid, 102 musicians refused to rehearse. That payroll was finally met, patrons were reassured; but when they arrived for the next concert, placards posted outside told them it had been postponed. Conductor Georges Zaslawsky complained of a heart attack. Violinist Paul Kochanski, who was to have been soloist, complained he was not paid according to contract. Rumor had it that Mrs. Clarence Chew Burger, the Symphony's chief underwriter and conductor's friend, had withdrawn her support...
...Cleveland, the Orchestra began its tenth season under Nikolai Sokolov, its first and only conductor, under Adella Prentiss Hughes, its first and only manager. Twenty pairs of concerts were announced with such famed soloists as Josef Hofmann, Harold Samuel, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Paul Kochanski, Albert Spalding. Maurice Ravel will be guest conductor...
...Goadby Loew, daughter of Capitalist George Fisher Baker: "Together with Delanos, Burdens, Mackays, Wideners, Waterburys, Cromwells and many another Manhattan society family, my husband and I last week attended a 'circus party' given for Violinist and Mrs. Paul Kochanski by Mr. and Mrs. William May Wright in their apartment. Walter Damrosch, Josef Stransky, Efrem Zimbalist and George Gershwin took turns leading 'the world's greatest circus band.' Munching hot dogs and popcorn, sipping pink lemonade, we strolled among sideshow booths -'The Sword Swallower,' 'The Circassian Beauty,' 'The Fire-eater...
...Retablo de Maese Pedro, Sibelius' Tapiola, Casella's Scarlatina, Honegger's Phaedre, Ernst Hallfter's Spanish Suite, a symphony by Austin George Antheil, Milhaud's Ballad for Piano and Orchestra. Soloists will be Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Efrem Zimbalist, Alfred Cortot, Albert Spalding, Paul Kochanski, Rudolf Laubenthal, Dusolina Giannini, Elsa Alsen, Walter Gieseking, John Charles Thomas, Pablo Casals, Josef Szigeti, Alfredo Casella, Darius Milhaud, Lewis Richards, Georges Barrere, Mischa Mischakov...
...orchestra. Unrivaled is the popularity of the Philadelphia Orchestra this year; unapproached the position of Conductor Stokowski. Novelty of this concert was the playing, for the first time in the U. S., of a violin concerto by Karol von Szymanowski which the composer dedicated to "mon ami," Violinist Paul Kochanski. Ami Kochanski was there himself, chin on instrument, to play the solo part...