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Faith & Finance. Mrs. Myra Kiima-lehto, sixtyish, sued for her late husband's share in what she claims he and his partner had conceived as "a business of conducting rituals, ceremonials, lessons, instructions and the sale of books and periodicals . . ." They founded AMORC, she says, "as a device to disseminate information, lessons and instructions to others for a profit." The take, she contends, is good. According to Widow Kiimalehto, the AMORC membership is now around 2,-000,000 (which Rosicrucian officials claim is a gross exaggeration...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Soloist: Pianist Myra Hess...
...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...
...critics may grumble about Eileen's dressy monkeyshines-but they also think that her playing is in Myra Hess's league. U.S. audiences have not yet seen Eileen's act, but millions of moviegoers have heard her (the excellent sound tracks of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2 helped make The Seventh Veil and Brief Encounter two of the best British movies seen...
...phone rang in the Chicago Symphony's office, and a familiar voice spoke all-too-familiar words: "Dr. Rodzinski cannot conduct rehearsal today." Assistant Conductor Tauno Hannikainen was hurriedly called in. He had just 24 hours to rehearse with the soloist (Pianist Myra Hess) and to start learning Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Several hours later, the phone rang again; once again it was Mrs. Rodzinski on the line: "Dr. Rodzinski is better; he will conduct the Shostakovich; Hannikainen can conduct the rest." But the orchestra's trustees had already heard enough. Midway through the concert next...