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...Milan, 79-year-old Arturo Toscanini, Wagnerian and symphonic conductor and renowned antiFascist, reacted to the news by canceling a benefit concert he was scheduled to give this week in Paris. Later he canceled a London engagement, offered to reimburse the Music, Art and Drama Society for its losses on 2,800 tickets. In protesting against "Italy's humiliation," he echoed the frenzied lamentations of Italian politicians and editors, one of whom wrote with rare unconscious humor: "Now the stab in the back has been repaid...
Died. The Rev. Howard Hyde Russell, 90, co-founder and longtime head man of the Anti-Saloon League, conductor of its first transcontinental "water wagon" tour (featuring a barfly-badgering male quartet) ; in Westerville, Ohio. He started a career in law, at 28 suddenly told his wife, "I am giving up sin! I am free!" Three years ago he predicted...
...first time in six years. In those years the pupil had won greater fame, and the master had lived in obscurity. The pupil was Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. The master had been a prodigy too: Georges Enesco, son of a Rumanian peasant, became a highly talented composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and musical scholar. Enesco had almost dropped from sight after his country went Fascist...
...arrived in the U.S., a Russian immigrant, at 18, with three rubles ($1.50) in his pockets. For a while he peddled pins & needles and was a trolley car conductor in Philadelphia. The words "S. Hurok presents . . ." first appeared outside the huge (6,000 capacity) New York Hippodrome in 1916. Hurok advertised that the King and Queen of the Belgians would attend a symphony concert with pianist Josef Lhevinne. The flag-draped royal box was empty-but Hurok took...
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major (Joseph Szigeti and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 9 sides); Symphony No. 1 in C Minor (Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 10 sides). Szigeti plays Brahms's bombastic music straight, while Conductor Stokowski plays it pretentiously. Szigeti's concerto is a better performance, but Stokowski's symphony is more clearly recorded on unbreakable vinylite...