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...feet once it has arrived and settled itself, but the better element* in a Manhattan audience did so last week when an oldster came out on the stage of Carnegie Hall and with just a little difficulty made his way across and up on to the conductor's stand. He was 82-year-old Leopold Auer, teacher of such famed violinists as Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist. For the second time† in the ten years he has been in the U. S., Professor Auer was appearing in public-not in his own behalf but to lend importance...
Last week Dean Hutcheson offered further encouragement: There will be a string orchestra composed of Juilliard students to be trained by Albert Stoessel, director of music at New York University and conductor of the New York Oratorio Society-an organization which may in time come to play as important a part in the musical life of the community as the orchestra of the Paris Conservatoire; there will be three concerts this winter with soloists chosen by Madame Marcella Sembrich from the best vocal students. Leopold Auer, famed violinist and teacher of such musicians as Jascha Heifetz, and Efrem Zimbalist, will...
...flinched before the laciest coloratura passages, before measures that took her well into contralto regions, out again and up to the peak of the soprano scale. Her acting as the Druid priestess was less impressive; but critics found little fault, gave unqualified praise to her singing, to Conductor Tullio Serafin who found enough light and beauty in Bellini's score to make it well worth the revival...
Pianist Ethel Leginska has often disappointed her audiences by failure to appear. Ethel Leginska, as conductor, has always been at the appointed dais at the appointed time. Last week Conductor Leginska broke her record, failed her public. The San Carlo Grand Opera Company had announced that she would conduct the last Saturday matinee of its Manhattan engagement. But soon they bickered. Conductor Leginska wished to lead not one but four performances. The San Carlo rebelled-and at the scheduled Butterfly the audience watched the serviceable back of Carlo Peroni instead of the svelt velvet jacket and flyaway head of Leginska...
...better showing was made earlier in the week by Emerson Whithorne, onetime (1907-09) husband of Conductor Leginska, whose New York Days and Nights had its first orchestral performance at the hands of the new Beethoven Symphony Orchestra. Critics liked his musical descriptions of a murky autumn morning on a ferry; of the chimes of St. Patrick blended with a Gregorian Chant; of Pell Street, Manhattan's Chinatown, and an old Chinaman playing on his single-stringed fiddle; of Greenwich Village and its weighty dramas made of little lives; of Times Square, its crowds, its glitter, its noise...