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Married. William K. Vanderbilt II to Mrs. Rose Lancaster Warburton; in Paris; in ten minutes, by Mayor Rene Bloch. Said the mayor to the bride: "If you have children, I hope their eyes will be as blue as yours...
...CITY WITHOUT JEWS?Hugo Bettauer?Bloch...
...measure of grave, cool beauty to paint the mood of a creator, peaceful as a flower at first, but bruised and beaten by a mocking Success back into a wiser contentment. Critics found it pleasant, a little sentimental. They commended Conductor Willem Mengelberg for introducing it, and for giving Bloch's Israel Symphony, that strong, honest portrayal of the suffering of the Jews, bright with savagery, sensual, despairing...
Conductor Ernest Bloch came all the way from San Francisco to lead a picked handful of men with strings through Bach's steamy and impetuous "Brandenburg" concerto in G. Some of the temperament of this first performance extended, unhappily, into their execution of the next item, Mozart's lunar "Serenata Notturna," but was in place again for Mr. Bloch's own sombre, splendid composition, "Concerto Grosso...
...poem for violin and orchestra by Templeton Strong, U. S. composer living in Geneva (Josef Szigeti, soloist); the first performance of Scriabin's piano concerto (Gitta Gradova, soloist); a fantasy by Darius Milhaud for piano and orchestra; Szymanowski's Third Symphony; J. C. Bach's Sinfonia; Bloch's Israel, Honegger's Tempest overture; Pfitzner's three preludes from Palestrina and a De Falla composition for piano and orchestra...