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Sirs: Who is Evangeline Brewster Johnson Stokowski [TIME, Dec. 13] ? I was under the impression that Leopold Stokowski was married to Olga Samaroff...
...three most worthy applicants for whom the Schubert Memorial will arrange public engagements. Preliminary heats had been held in 36 regional districts. For the Philadelphia finals there were eight nervous survivors. The three big winners: Violinist Joseph Knitzer, 22, from Manhattan; Pianist Rosalyn Tureck, a pupil of Olga Samaroff; Contralto Margaret Harshaw, 23, a stenographer for Bell Telephone Co. in Philadelphia...
...musical"' and, with the practical candor of Booth Tarkington's Plutocrat, he admits it. He felt that, as chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Company, he should understand more about what he sits and listens to. So all last winter he took lessons in appreciation from Pianist Olga Samaroff". So did 40 Junior League girls who in a few months lost their horror of music's technicalities. Pianist Samaroff would sound different notes until they learned to identify them. She grouped notes together in scales and chords. From that they learned how composers had worked out themes...
Last week, Pianist Samaroff threw her music courses open to the public, engaged 17 teachers to help her in New York, eight in Philadelphia, announced besides the rudimentary course, special classes for businessmen and women, classes for opera and orchestra subscribers who want to study programs in advance...
Like most musicians, Mine Samaroff has suffered long from the superficiality of U. S. audiences. It was impressed upon her at the beginning of her career when a New York manager made her change her name from Hickenlooper (she was the daughter of a San Antonio army officer). She felt it even more in the years when she was making her career and Conductor Leopold Stokowski. to whom she was married for twelve years, was making his. Eight years ago Mine Samaroff fell over a trunk, tore a ligament in her right arm, had to five up concert work...