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...juveniles." Others find the criticism of students only too candid. At U.C.L.A., Writer-Playwright Christopher Isherwood patiently answers Questions aimed at baring his soul: "What do you think about God?" "Have you changed your mind about Freud?" "How come Auden became more renowned than you?" At Wisconsin, Violinist Rudolph Kolisch is openly critical of the university's music faculty, declares: "These music-education people do not understand music itself...
...Coolidge began a series of chamber music festivals in her newly finished Music Temple on South Mountain, near Pittsfield. To them she brought the most capable and renowned musicians in the world. The names of Hugo Kortschak, Willem Willeke, Jacques Gordon, Rudolf Kolisch, William Kroll, Albert Spalding, Myra Hess, and hosts of others appear on these programs. In these years she organized the Berkshire Quartet, the Coolidge Quartet, and the Elshuco Trio. She inaugurated in 1921 the Coolidge Prize for chamber music compositions and began commissioning works by contemporary composers. The list of those she has helped in this...
...wealthy Chicago grocer and widow of a distinguished Chicago surgeon, Mrs. Coolidge* is something of an amateur of music herself. She has played the piano in informal recitals with violinists like Kneisel and Zimbalist. Five years ago, at 79, she amazed her friends by sitting in with the Kolisch Quartet at the Library of Congress, to play Schumann's Quintet for Piano and Strings. Last year one of her own trios, written in 1930, was performed at the Library...
...Budapest Quartet holds its rank today in probably the most competitive field in quartet history.* Runners-up include the Busch Quartet, the Lener, the Curtis, the Gordon, the Coolidge, the Pro Arte, the Kolisch, the Roth and the Perol...
Last week chamber-music alligators from far & near gathered again at South Mountain to celebrate the Berkshire Chamber Music Festival's 20th anniversary. Participating were twelve of the world's best-known chamber-music players, the famed Roth, Gordon and Kolisch Quartets. On the list of new quartets and quintets to be chambered were recent works by U. S. Composers Frederick Jacobi and Louis Gruenberg, Austrian Composers Ernst Toch and Anton von Webern, British Composer Frank Bridge...