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After his press ordeal, Dr. Einstein had a good time in Manhattan. He looked up two old friends, Poet Rabindranath Tagore and Violinist Fritz Kreisler, called upon John Davison Rockefeller Jr., met Helen Keller. Arturo Toscanini, conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, invited the Einsteins to a concert, sat them in a box belonging to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. - So impressed were U. S. citizens with the fame of their guest that few atteided the significance of his remarks. At a meeting of the New History Society, Bahai (universal worship) organization, he urged all pacifists to organize, suggested...
...string section of the Pierian Sodality will be led by G. W. Woodworth '24, with M. H. Holmes '28 as assistant conductor and soloist. The concert, which will be open to all members of Dunster House and their guests, has the following program on schedule...
Last week Stokowski anticipated the inevitable comparison with a press statement which lavishly extolled the genius of Toscanini in terms applicable to any great conductor, perhaps even to Stokowski himself. Excerpt: "The melodic line he molds just as a sculptor molds in soft clay the forms appearing under his fingers. . . . His originality of conception comes from his expressing the essence and soul of the score instead of merely the literal notes. ... It is the divine fire in him which elevates all he expresses through tone, so that one knows that at that moment music is being created which through...
...nationwide tour. He has played to record-breaking audiences all the way from Portland, Me. to Chicago and East again, attracted hundreds who would never think of listening to other pianists. In Philadelphia he had to have the piano pushed offstage before his audience would leave the hall. Like Conductor Arturo Toscanini (TIME, Nov. 24) Paderewski is this year in the U. S. without his wife for the first time. Mme Paderewska is ill of an incurable disease in Switzerland...
...Come with me to Heaven, but come on wings. Do not climb by a ladder." With this exhortation last week Conductor Arturo Toscanini rehearsed his Philharmonic-Symphony players through the great C Minor Symphony of Johannes Brahms. Tenderly, painstakingly, he molded every phrase and his men, as one, obeyed him. Magnificently he soared through the concluding chorale and even the stodgiest horn-player seemed to find the wings with which to follow. Then the little Italian called a pause, ate a bowl of soup with a raw egg in it before going on with the preparation of his first Manhattan...