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...others, by most critics, are held to be Ignaz Jan Paderewski and Sergei Rachmaninov. Contemporary estimates, ever dangerous, might have to make room for Alfred Cortot; and Vladimir de Pachmann, admitted master interpreter of Chopin, yet lives. Of these careers, while Composer- pianist Paderewski's has been the most phenomenal, many people recall when Josef Hofmann, aged 11, his feet barely touching the pedals, was the U. S. musical sensation of the day (1887). Compelled by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children to withdraw, he studied under Anton Rubinstein, "lion with the velvet paw." His playing...
...first New York Symphony concert of the season. Mozart had the honor of beginning, with his energetic Symphony in D, cooked to order at his father's command to tickle the palate of a Salzburg burgomaster. Schumann was next with his Concerto in A Minor, with Pianist Alfred Cortot to spin the important thread cunningly. Then came a stranger, Jacques Ibert, with three pieces from his ballet suite, Les Rencontres, given its U. S. premiere a fortnight ago by the Boston Symphony. In conflicting keys, restless violins traced his vagaries of flower girls and Creoles in the Debussy manner...
...marionette opera, El Retablo de Maese Pedro, Sibelius' Tapiola, Casella's Scarlatina, Honegger's Phaedre, Ernst Hallfter's Spanish Suite, a symphony by Austin George Antheil, Milhaud's Ballad for Piano and Orchestra. Soloists will be Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Efrem Zimbalist, Alfred Cortot, Albert Spalding, Paul Kochanski, Rudolf Laubenthal, Dusolina Giannini, Elsa Alsen, Walter Gieseking, John Charles Thomas, Pablo Casals, Josef Szigeti, Alfredo Casella, Darius Milhaud, Lewis Richards, Georges Barrere, Mischa Mischakov...
...Cleveland Orchestra, Nikolai Sokolov, conductor, will give 65 concerts beginning Oct. 21. Among the soloists will be Elsa Alsen, Alfred Cortot, Lucrezia Bori, Ruth Breton, John Charles Thomas, Respighi, Josef Szigeti, Dusolina Giannini, Efrem Zimbalist, Harold Bauer...
...Hall begins next Sunday afternoon with Titta Ruffo, the famous baritone. The dates of the other concerts, all on Sunday afternoons, are as follows: November 5, Sophie Braslau, contralto, and Emilio de Gogorza, baritone; January 28, Frances Alda, soprano of the Metropolitan, and Alexander Siloti, planist: February 18, Alfred Cortot, French planist, and Jacques Thibaud, a violinist fully appreciated only by a small but discriminating public; and on a date to be announced later, John McCormack, popular Irish tenor...