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Died. Daniela Thobe, about 80, granddaughter of the great Hungarian Composer Franz Liszt (1811-86), stepdaughter of the great German Composer Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-83); in Bayreuth, Germany. Daniela's father, Pianist-Conductor Hans von Bülow, was a stanch friend cf Wagner until his wife ran off with Wagner; and Daniela's half-brother was Wagner's illegitimate son, Siegfried...
...Harris' eight-minute work, which he called Challenge 1940, had been commissioned by Conductor Artur Rodzinski -a U. S. citizen, born of Polish parents on the Dalmatian coast. Last week Rodzinski and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony gave Challenge 1040 its first performance, in a concert which brought 13,000 people to the open-air Lewisohn Stadium in Manhattan. The concert was dedicated to Democracy. Aside from two democratic Czech pieces, the program was 100% American. It made good listening...
...most of the 13,000 Stadiumgoers, the real part of the evening began when big, magnetic, broad-smiling Negro Baritone Paul Robeson appeared. The Philharmonic, under the come-to-glory gyrations of a new conductor, Mark Warnow of radio's Hit Parade, blared a broad, thoroughly whistleable melody. It was Ballad for Americans, in which Robeson was "the everybody who's nobody . . . the nobody who's everybody," as he was in its radio launching last winter (TIME, Nov. 20). Baritone Robeson sang...
...competitions of young listeners to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. She now studies at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan, has an I. Q. of 185 (showing a mental age of 16). One of her two piano teachers is an assistant of Pianist Josef Hofmann. Able Conductor Antonia Brico drills Philippa in conducting, score reading...
...take to South America. Although he had set age limits (15 to 25), he stretched the limit after hearing, in Detroit, a 14-year-old Negro trumpeter named William B. Horner Jr. Last week, Trumpeter Horner's name was on the list of 84 winners announced by Conductor Stokowski in Manhattan. The other players, although they came from all over the U. S., were by no means all young, or cornfed, or self-taught. There were young players from recognized orchestras, students from conservatories like Philadelphia's Curtis Institute, 14 players from around New York...