Word: rachmaninoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Variety, theatrical tradesheet, last week prophesied an end to fee inflation, printed the prices asked by some 50 artists: Soprano Amelita Galli-Curci, $4,500; Violinist Fritz Kreisler, $4,500; Tenor John McCormack, $4,000; Soprano Rosa Ponselle, $3,500; Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, $3,000. . . . Such lists are misleading. Galli-Curci may ask for $4,500 but she seldom gets it now. Many people prefer to hear Lily Pons, the pretty French coloratura who is a novelty and only a little more than half Galli-Curci's age. Kreisler makes $4,500 on many a concert but he makes...
...From news headlines casual readers might have thought last week that Soprano Maria Jeritza, Violinist Fritz Kreisler and Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff had contracted for a radio series with National Broadcasting Co. But these artists have only become affiliated with N. B. C.'s Artists Service, an agency like any other which books flesh & blood concerts. Kreisler and Rachmaninoff are two of the three great artists who have steadfastly refused to broadcast. The third: Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski...
...with Stravinsky's new violin concerto, a superficial showpiece on which Violinist Samuel Dushkin has the purchased monopoly, also given its U. S. premiere last week, by the Boston Symphony. Few great virtuosi have written important music, particularly for instruments not their own. (Notable exception is Pianist Serge Rachmaninoff who has written extensively for both orchestra and voice.) Most of them cannot forget their audiences long enough, cannot help working for effects to the detriment of the musical substance. People well acquainted with the playing of Zimbalist, with Zimbalist himself, might have known that he would not fall into...
...German, Adolf Busch, was unknown to most of them. He carried his violin as unostentatiously as if it had been a brief case. He was to play the familiar Brahms' Concerto, surely of less interest to an up & coming audience than Respighi's glittering arrangement of five Rachmaninoff Picture Studies or Florent Schmitt's gruesome Tragedy of Salome...
...people who went to hear concerts. The figures, while not record-breaking, are surprisingly optimistic considering the Depression, according to Mr. Engles. Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski, whom Mr. Engles manages, drew the largest business-$500.000. Next best, box-officially, were Violinist Fritz Kreisler, Tenor John McCormack, Pianist Serge Rachmaninoff. Chicago and Manhattan paid more for concerts this year than last; Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Kansas City paid less. As in 1929 La Porte, Ind., was found to be the most musical city per capita in the U. S. (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929). Of its 15,575 population, 1,428 (9%) attend concerts...