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...group was shy, sandy-haired, 24-year-old Tykon Krennikov, whose deep, contemplative First Symphony was hailed by critics at its Manhattan première last year as one of the finest contemporary works of its kind. Also basking in official favor were long-nosed Dmitri Kabalevsky, Caucasus-born Lev Knipper, and aging, conservative Nicolas Miaskovsky, who was composing symphonies long before the Old Bolsheviks were dry behind the ears...
...years ago the undisputed title of No. 1 living cellist was held by a stocky, bald-headed Spaniard named Pablo Casals. The aging Casals has not played in the U. S. for nearly a decade. Three years ago, when Austrian-born Cellist Emanuel Feuermann made his Manhattan debut, he set the cello fans' heads to wagging. Short, roundheaded Feuermann not only drew a powerful, well-modulated tone from his recalcitrant instrument, he could play it with a rippling facility that put most violinists to shame. Last week Cellist Feuermann finished the most ambitious cellistic venture ever witnessed in Manhattan...
Cellist Feuermann, born in a family of musicians at Kolomea, Galicia, started to play the cello at the age of seven, played it in concerts at eleven, and at 16 taught it as a professor at the Cologne Conservatory. Ousted by Nazis from his position as teacher in Berlin's Hochschule für Musik in 1933, he embarked on two world tours, was nailed on four continents as one of the greatest living virtuosos. While traveling, Cellist Feuermann never lets his $30,000 Stradivarius cello out of his sight, always buys an extra berth for it when forced...
Gilbert Gable is short, jovial and 51. Born in Pennsylvania, he never went to college, served for nine years before the War as publicity counsel for Bell Telephone Co. During the War he headed Liberty Loan drives. After it, he became an explorer, discovered dinosaur tracks in Arizona and a primitive Indian village. ''Lost Mesa," was made a chief of the Navaho tribe with a certificate written in human blood to prove it. Six years ago he took as his second wife Paulina Stearns, daughter of a wealthy Ludington, Mich, lumber family. In 1933 he went to southwestern...
Although she was born in Washington, D. C., was educated at the University of Wisconsin, worked on newspapers in the North, blue-eyed, 42-year-old Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is pure Southerner in her literary career. Both her novels (South Moon Under, Golden Apples) and her short stories have dealt with the poor whites who live in the Florida scrub where she and her journalist husband went to live...