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...idea of putting himself through University College. London. He went to the U. S., which he found ''very agreeable,'' left because life there lacked "mental excitement." After the War, he became science editor of the London Athenaeum. His hobbies are music and mathematics; his heroes Beethoven (on whom he has written a book), Isaac Newton (of whom he hopes to write...
Engaged. Wanda Toscanini, 26, daughter of Conductor Arturo Toscanini; and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz, 29. They became acquainted last winter in New York when Toscanini and Horowitz were rehearsing Beethoven's Emperor Concerto for a Philharmonic concert...
...drifted around since then, giving guest performances in Holland, Austria, London. Impressed with his martyrdom Philharmonic subscribers, who usually save their hero-worship for Toscanini. stood up when the big. kindly German came on stage, clapped him louder and longer than they ever clap his sensitive, scholarly performances. Beethoven and Brahms-Walter's program last week -were painstakingly conservative. The other big-league conductors played almost as safe. Koussevitzky added Scriahin and a touch of his favorite Debussy. Stokowski chose Bach. Wagner and Schubert. Stock finished off with a mild dash of Stravinsky...
...dabbler, Iturbi plunged into a program fit to give his hearers an honest test of his ability. He announced that he would begin with two Wagner numbers, Overture to Tannhduser and Prelude to Act i of Lohengrin, then simultaneously play the piano solo and conduct Beethoven's Third Concerto in C Minor, before winding up with the Eroica...
After syphilis had destroyed the hearing of the late great Composer Ludwig van Beethoven, that melancholy genius discovered that by clenching a stick in his teeth, holding it against the keyboard of his piano, he could discern faint sounds. Had Beethoven been in Manhattan last week, he could have seen what a century's progress has done to his primitive device...