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...Gushing confine his last week's chatter. In addition he had scrambled together a list of famed musicians' food fancies. It read: "Toscanini. Kraftbruhe mit Ei (consomme with raw egg). . . . Iturbi, caviar on apples . . . Horowitz, Russian cutlets . . . Stokowski, raw vegetables . . . Hutcheson, mushrooms (he grows and eats them) . . . Cortot, bread and gravy . . . Brailowsky, lump sugar . . . Professor Erskine, raw beef . . . the Leners of the Lener Quartet, orange ice . . . Melchior, green apples . . . Gabrilovitch, sardine oil . . . Gershwin, cereal and milk . . . Schumann-Heink, onions . . . Jeritza, cabbage." Most, if not all of this list is verifiable fact...
Famed French musicians are few-the U. S. public knows the names of Conductor Pierre Monteux, Pianist Alfred Cortot and a few others. Of the 97 principals in the Metropolitan Opera Company, in recent years there has been but one French singer, Basso Léon Rothier. Last week Basso Rothier was joined by a compatriot-Tenor Antonin Trantoul, a native of Toulouse and War veteran whose singing has won high praise in Paris, Italy, South America. He sang Faust in the Metropolitan's 200th performance of the Gounod opera. He was weak-voiced, uneven and unduly doddering...
...groups is a third which is relatively immune from box office inflation or deflation. Of this an outstanding example is Efrem Zimbalist* who, while not drawing the Kreisler crowds, is considered an almost perfect violinist. Others for whose talents there is a steady demand are Pianists Harold Bauer, Alfred Cortot, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, 'Cellist Pablo Casals, Guitarist Andres Segovia, Violinist Albert Spalding...
Practically every great city has its orchestra. For years Paris has been the notable exception. Now the formation of a Paris orchestra is announced. Two million francs have been subscribed, 80 musicians engaged. Louis Fourestier, Ernest Ansermet and Alfred Cortot will conduct the first season's concerts, to be devoted impartially to modern and classical music...
...dinner and the celebrities?including Mary Garden, the company of the Opera Comique (Paris) and the orchestra of the Paris Conservatory responded with evening after evening of inimitable entertainment? Pelleas and Melisande, played, acted and sung as never before; Cesar Franck's "Variations Symphoniques" executed by masterly Alfred Cortot; the Dresden Opera Company tilting friendliwise to excel their French friends. . . . It was a love feast as well as a music fest. And between rare performances the delegates might wander, as tourists may for weeks to come, among exhibits ranging from furniture polish to autographed manuscripts of Mozart's Magic Flute...