Word: flesch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merit. In 1923 such a school opened its doors -the Curtis Institute of Music, named in honor of Mrs. Bok's mother, consisting of three mansions donated by its founder in Rittenhouse Square. The first year's faculty included Josef Hofmann, piano; Marcella Sembrich, voice; Karl Flesch, violin; Leopold Stokowski, orchestra. By the end of its third year, Curtis Institute had taken its place as one of the leading schools of music in the world. In 1927, Mrs. Bok increased the endowment to a total of $12,500,000, announced the appointment of Mr. Hofmann as director. Students...
...Carl Flesch Efrem Zimbalist...
...Felix Salmond, 'cello; Louis Bailly, viola and chamber music; Carlos Salzedo, harp; Arthur Rodzinski. orchestra; Reginald O. Morris, theory and composition. Last week were added to the list Violinists Leopold Auer, now 82 years old, and Efrem Zimbalist, one of his many famed pupils, and Edward Bachman. Karl Flesch, it was announced, had retired, would leave soon for a concert tour of Europe...
...Institute of Music in three years' time into one of the few wonders of the music world. Money is much, but far from all in that world. At a music institute the teaching staff is all-important. To hers Mrs. Bok attracted Mme. Sembrich, Emilio de Gogorza, Carl Flesch, Moritz Rosenthal and many another. A program comes next. The Bok administration provides needy students not only with instruments and instruction, but with living expenses and funds for their debut concerts as well...
...last week of Mary Louise Curtis Bok* at the new Chamber Music Hall of the Library of Congress. The occasion was the first public concert by the Curtis Quartet, organization composed of members of the faculty of the Curtis Institute ot Music in Philadelphia. The quartet, composed of Karl Flesch, Emanuel Zetlin (violinists), Louis Bailly (violist), Felix Salmond, musicians all of them before they were pedagogs, played with great skill and understanding numbers by Haydn, Beethoven and Bach, won much honest applause from the invited audience...