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Saturday afternoon in Jordan Hall, Miss Guiomar Novaes, pianiste. Her program includes Beethoven's Sonata, Opus 8la. Chopin's B-flat minor Sonata and pieces by Rameau, Albeniz and Debussy...
Sunday afternoon in Symphony Hall, Mme. Dusolina Giannini, who recently won fame and popularity as soloist with the Harvard Glee Club. Among other things she will sing Haendel's Large, Donaudy's "Del Mio Amato Ben" and aria from "Figaro", one from Beethoven and songs of Brahms and Schumann...
...Manhattan, the Women's Symphony Orchestra of America filed papers of incorporation. The capital was named at $250,000; number of players, 60; conductor, Madame Elizabeth Kuyper, Dutch musician. A month ago, in London, the British Women's Symphony Orchestra gave a concert, played Handel, Saint-Saens, Beethoven, Weber with competency. Musical people who read of these events in the press began to ask questions about women conductors, women orchestra players...
President Emeritus Eliot compiled recently a list of the ten greatest educators: Aristotle, Galen, Da Vinci, Milton, Shakespeare, Locke, Kant, Bacon, Newton, and Emerson. Of course, his list, like any other, will reap a whirlwind of comment and criticism. Where, for example, is Goethe, Homer, Beethoven, Tolstoy, perhaps, and Rousseau...
...they don't often shout!" Clarence H. Mackay, Chairman of the Philharmonic Board, stood, carnation in buttonhole, bending a benign, florid face upon the inclining Furtwangler. He had just heard him conduct Strauss's Death and Transfiguration, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, with dignity and power. This Furtwangler well understands Beethoven, presents, in fact, something of an intellectual likeness to him. He has vigor, directness, a scorn of sham that amounts some- times to a scorn of subtlety, and a kind of majesty even-the majesty of the unconcerned. Perhaps that is why the cellists slapped their instruments...