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...nominal fees can command as good tours as ever. Baritone John Charles Thomas sings for $1,500 but his 92 engagements will make him a big earner this year along with Pianist Jose Iturbi who is giving 68 concerts at an even more reasonable figure. Violinists Albert Spalding and Efrem Zimbalist have profitably kept their fees down. So have Pianists Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Soprano Florence Austral, Contralto Sigrid Onegin...
...harsh or eerie effects, embodied no attributes of the mechanical age, neither steel works nor jazz. It was music made for beauty's sake, music suggested by the old Greek legend of Daphnis and Chloe, a shepherd and a shepherdess who grew up together and loved inevitably. Violinist Efrem Zimbalist wrote it. Conductor Leopold Stokowski played it first in Philadelphia. In Manhattan next day he put it on the same program with Stravinsky's new violin concerto, a superficial showpiece on which Violinist Samuel Dushkin has the purchased monopoly, also given its U. S. premiere last week...
...stage door while she insisted that she was not interested in marrying again, that it would not be becoming for her to marry a man younger than herself. Finally she surrendered, and there began one of those rare successful marriages between artists. There are two children: Maria Virginia, 16, Efrem, 12. Young Efrem plays the violin capably, but he is having a general education at St. Paul's School now, is registered for Yale...
Died. Aaron Zimbalist, 66, father of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, onetime oprra conductor in Russia; of heart disease; in Astoria, L. I. last fortnight. Because Violinist Zimbalist was on tour at the time, preparing to play in Manhattan last week, the news was withheld until after the concert...
...subordinate to Director Josef Hofmann who also heads the piano department. The Institute was founded in 1924 by Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok. Other department heads at Curtis: oldtime Soprano Marcella Sembrich (ill last year, she was replaced by Soprano Queena Mario) and Baritone Emilio de Gogorza; Violinist Efrem Zimbalist; Cellist Felix Salmond; Viola Player Louis Bailly, onetime member of the Flonzaley Quartet (chamber music department...