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...months ago the passing of Professor Leopold Auer left vacant the title of "greatest teacher of the violin." The late great Hungarian? taught Efrem Zimbalist, Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz. Who would most worthily wear his plume? Last week in Manhattan the Juilliard Graduate School of Music appointed as his successor Louis Persinger, teacher of the contemporary child prodigies Yehudi Menuhin and Ruggiero Ricci...
Last year Persinger commuted between Manhattan and Cleveland's Institute of Music. His Juilliard appointment will preclude such a schedule, keep him in Manhattan where his family now lives? his wife who was Angela Gianelli, an able pianist; Louis Jr., 12, also studying the piano; Rolf, 10, who shows marked talent for the violin. Since the spectacular success of his prodigies he has been besieged by parents, some with precocious, some with backward children. He is ignorantly supposed to be able to develop genius even where it does not exist. Like Auer, he employs simple methods, plays to his pupils...
...Vice President George H. Gartlan, music supervisor in Manhattan. Conductor Walter Damrosch talked proudly of his radio classes (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928) which numbered some 1,500,000 last year, 5,000,000 this, with 10,000,000 estimated for next year. President John Erskine of the Juilliard School of Music advocated state music centres, suggested supporting them by a tax on baseball and other public sports. President Joseph N. Weber of the American Federation of Musicians seized the opportunity to flay "canned" music once more. His refrain: "There will be no incentive for young musicians if 200 cheap musicians...
...drums, xylophones, rattles, whistles, bells, a mechanical piano, a sewing machine motor, and an airplane propeller (TIME, April 25. 1927). Writer Erskine became famed with his smart satire, The Private Life of Helen of Troy. He is professor of English at Columbia University, an able pianist, president of the Juilliard School of Music. A false report: that Collaborators Erskine and Antheil had been commissioned by Otto Hermann Kahn, presiding patron of the Metropolitan Opera...
...George Fisher Baker, near-billionaire chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank, gave away another million dollars and again marked himself on the public mind as a highly individualistic giver. The Rockefellers, the Harknesses and Andrew Carnegie have given their hundreds of millions. Milton Hershey (chocolates, sugar, orphans), Augustus Juilliard (commission merchant, music), Julius Rosenwald (mailorder, Jews, Negroes), James B. Duke (tobacco, waterpower, his university, preachers), Mrs. Russell Sage (railroads, surveys) have given their scores of millions. All these have given largely and chiefly to found institutions and movements they have initiated...