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...invigorating music has reached the proportions of thirsty demand. In 1935 a poll of the Columbia Broadcasting System's U. S. and Canadian listeners gave him first place in popularity (Beethoven was second) among all composers, past and present. This autumn Manhattan's Radio City MusicHall Conductor Erno Rapee unhesitatingly undertook to broadcast Sibelius' entire set of seven symphonies. The Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra play them far oftener than the once-popular symphonies of Tchaikovsky and Cesar Franck. The great bald Finn has come into...
...bought out the house long ago, at $15 for the best seats, the proceeds (some $22,000) going to the Musicians Emergency Fund. In the audience were New York's Mayor LaGuardia, Polish Ambassador Count Jerzy Potocki, ubiquitous Manhattanites like Novelist Fannie Hurst, scads of musicians, among them Conductor Artur Rodzinski, Pianist Leopold Godowsky, Violinist Albert Spalding. There were 20 oldsters, including kindly Dr. Walter Damrosch, who had heard the Hofmann debut concert, 50 years before. In a box sat Pianist Hofmann's daughter and granddaughter by his first wife, and his comely young second wife-whom...
...Buddhism because "it is too sad," he likes the Taoist-Confucianist view better, but cheerfully admits that he has taken many of his opinions from humbler authorities who include "Mrs. Huang, an amah in my family; a Soochow boatwoman with her profuse use of expletives; a Shanghai street car conductor ... a lion cub in the zoo; a squirrel in Central Park in New York. . . ." But his main guide is himself...
Have you ever seen a bar walking? Well, a walking bar made his debut in Soldiers Field Saturday. Strung along his belt, like a glorified street-car conductor, was a row of leather containers. One held a little shaker, several had little bottles, and others had little glasses. He had many more friends at the end of the game than he had at the beginning...
...gladly do office work, solicit contributions, sell memberships at prices ranging from $1 to $5,000. Of the 130 young men and women who comprise the orchestra, many are on scholarships, pay as little as $1 a year tuition, and especially needy students receive money for rent and clothing. Conductor of the association is tall, slim Violist Leon Barzin (TIME, July 31, 1933), 37, who gathers the students thrice weekly in Carnegie Hall Chamber Music room for rehearsals, works them to a frazzle for two hours and a half, shouts at them when they play badly. He has been conductor...