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...public career of Heinrich Langkopf began in Berlin last week, when, with a stout tin box under his arm, he called at the office of Privy Councilor Hugo Bach. Arriving early, he was kept waiting until a few minutes after noon. Ushered in at last by a page who discreetly retired, he approached the desk of Privy Councilor Bach, placed the tin box upon it, and spoke crisply: "I have here 15 pounds of high explosives. Unless you are willing to give me 112,000 marks, in cash, for reasons which I shall explain, this building will be blown...
...program follows: Organ: Choral Preludes Bach a. Christus der uns selig macht b. Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam Choir: Antiphonal, Haec dies Gallus Adoramus Te, Christe Lassus Hodie Christus natus est Palestrina Organ: Choral Preludes Bach a. Jesus Christus, unser Heiland b. Fuga: Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr' Choir: O vos omnes Vittoria Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Bach Organ: Larghetto R. Thompson Choir: Antiphonal, Pueri Hebraeorum R. Thompson Organ: Introduction and Allegro from Second Organ Concerto Handel
...Francisco, a small boy had a birthday, made his party out of such stuff as Mozart, Bach and Tartini and entertained 10.000 guests. He was Yehudi Menuhin, who after two years abroad, has upset the tradition that a child prodigy can never be a great artist. Out he came on to the great Civic Auditorium stage, a chunky child in the white socks, silk blouse and velvet breeches of the conventional boy violinist. Over his face spread a wide, confiding smile. Up to his chin went the violin ? itself not quite man-sized ? and the concert began...
...sisters Hephzibah who is seven and Yaltah who is five. He gets up at seven, exercises, has breakfast, practices for three hours, has lunch, plays outdoors all the afternoon, has dinner and goes to bed at seven. Ask him what he likes best and his answer will be Bach and Beethoven and Handel and Haydn and Mozart and San Francisco and ice-cream sodas (the first thing he asked for after his Manhattan concert), handball, climbing rocks, chess, the new Cadillacs, St. Bernard dogs and giving concerts. Some weeks ago Walter Damrosch cautioned him gravely against playing the Beethoven Concerto...
...Whiting, who will play the pianoforte, will show the development of music written for that instrument by Bach in the Seventeenth Century through Brahms and Debussy, ending up with three selections from Chopin...