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...with his masterly conception of the Beethoven concerto. Last week he went again, again played with the Philharmonic Orchestra, this time the Tschaikovsky concerto. But although now he plays on a full-sized fiddle and has a reputation which might well be the envy of many a full-sized fiddler, his perform ance last week suffered in comparison with the younger Yehudi's. As before, critics marked his amazing virtuosity, but many detected signs of a precocious vice: striving for effect...
...stage show this week is the best in a long, long time. There is an excellent acrobatic act, a jazz fiddler and various other things which make up in part at least for the suffering endured at the expense of past Publix stage productions...
Harry Braun's most recent acquaintance is shrewd Banker Otto Hermann Kahn. Last week it became known that Otto Kahn had not given him any money with which to further his studies; instead, he had asked Harry Braun to come to Europe with him. This week, fiddler and financier sail together; after that there will be scenes abroad in which Harry Braun plays for kings and queens or performs as soloist for Paris philharmonic societies or the London Symphony, while Otto Kahn stands and listens. In New York, a job with the Philharmonic awaits...
...loyal Brabant news organs "learned" that H. R. H.'s performance was "in the highest degree creditable." But scurrilous sheets of the separatist Flemish persuasion "wondered" if H. R. H. does not run through sonatas "rather too often, to the accompaniment of M. Eugène Ysaye, the fiddler...
Since a lady-in-waiting is always present at the meetings of the Princess and 70-year-old Fiddler Ysaye, Brabanters considered the phrase "too often" outrageous and uncalled...