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...open again. The Chicago Bohemians' Club sponsored last week's gala Auditorium concert to help jobless musicians. Sturdy Frederick Stock conducted the Chicago Symphony augmented by outside players to a mighty 200. Soprano Elsa Alsen and Baritone John Charles Thomas sang. Pianist Josef Hofmann left his inventing* long enough to solo in Rubinstein's D Minor Concerto. But it was not the excellent concert which did most to restore the Auditorium's oldtime pride, nor its own spick & span appearance, nor the announcement of the newly organized Chicago Friends of Music which will undertake to build...
...Josef Hofmann was so busy being a musical prodigy that he had little time for mechanical tinkering. Now, when his duties as iirector of the Curtis Institute of Music give lim time, he likes nothing better than to work in the laboratory of his Merion, Pa., home. By himself he has built three motor cars, three motor boats which he keeps at his summer lome in Camden, Maine. He has invented a combination gas & oil burner, folding skates, a system of pivoted reflections to vary the resonance of a piano, a shock absorber...
Gustaf De Loor, a new Dutch tenor, and Ludwig Hofmann, a German bass-baritone, sang in Die Götterdämmerung. Tenor De Loor gave a stodgy, dark-toned impersonation of Wagner's youthful Siegfried. Hofmann's Hagen might have seemed deeply sinister if mighty Michael Bohnen had not sung the same role so recently, in the same black cape, the same black-winged helmet...
...Josef Hofmann, wife of the famed pianist, was looking for a school for her daughter Josefa. She found none that suited. At length she looked at piny, sandy, swank Aiken, S. C. and found it good. There she established a school, named it Fermata. In 1926 Fermata School was taken over by F. A. M. Tabor, owner of Aiken Preparatory School for boys. Principal Tabor moved the school to its present site at Whiskey Road & Gin Lane. He expanded the plant with tennis courts, gymnasium, outdoor swimming pool. A Cambridge man, brother-in-law of Sir John Broderick, onetime commercial...
...from the late great Enrico Caruso. To succeed Gigli Mr. Gatti has chosen Tenor Tito Schipa, another short, plump Italian, lately of the Chicago Civic Opera.* Also from Chicago will come Frida Leider, great Wagnerian Soprano long coveted by the Metropolitan. Tenor Gustaaf de Loor and Basso-Baritone Ludwig Hofmann will strengthen the German wing. Four new Americans are on the list: Tenor Richard Crooks, Soprano Helen Gleason. Contralto Rose Bampton, Baritone Richard Bonelli. Three operas will be added to the repertoire: Louis Gruenberg's Emperor Jones, Richard Strauss's Elektra, Giachino Antonio Rossini's II Signor...