Word: hirschmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friends of Music was founded by a smart Manhattan business executive named Ira A. Hirschmann (vice president of Bloomingdale's department store) in order to impress a lady pianist he wanted to marry. Some men buy their prospective brides platinum rings. Black-haired Ira Hirschmann gave Pianist Hortense Monath the New Friends to play with...
While Executive Hirschmann handled the New Friends' business matters with an expert hand, Wife Hortense dictated its artistic policies with the relentlessness of a musical Robespierre. A woman of stern, uncompromising tastes, she decreed that the New Friends should have no stars, no intermissions, no encores, no flowers, no free passes. For her audiences she hired a few carefully selected soloists (Pianist Artur Schnabel, Violinist Joseph Szigeti and others) and a roster of the finest string quartet players...