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...unknown to most of them. He carried his violin as unostentatiously as if it had been a brief case. He was to play the familiar Brahms' Concerto, surely of less interest to an up & coming audience than Respighi's glittering arrangement of five Rachmaninoff Picture Studies or Florent Schmitt's gruesome Tragedy of Salome...
...German, Dutch, Bohemian glass, made in the Middle Ages, blown into the tiny translucence of spray bubbles, wreathed into frail, florent cornucopias, drawn into the cruel delicacy of icicles, chiseled into the sunny symmetrical angles of molecular bodies, the collection of Dr. H. W. Muehsam of Berlin was the finest private collection in the world. Last week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Manhattan, and the Chicago Art Institute announced that they had jointly purchased Dr. Muehsam's collection. When German experts have impartially divided the pieces into two equal parts, all will be shipped...
...Tuesday, March 23 at 8 o'clock the University Glee Club will give a concort in Sanders Theatre. The concert will be free to all members of the University and their guests. The feature number on the program will be Florent Schmitt's "Chant de Guerre," in which Joseph Lautner '21, former President of the Glee Club will sing the tenor solo...
...Prague celebration was a riot of modernistic delicacies. Arnold Schpnberg, Florent Schmitt, Sergei Prokofiev, Ernest Bloch, Arthur Honegger were all well represented by new works, guaranteed to irritate unaccustomed ears. A new composer of unquestioned merit was also brought to light oh this occasion. He is Alexander von Zemlinsky, an Austro-Czecho-Slovakian. His Third, or "Lyric", Symphony was performed; its seven long movements are all built around a single leading motif: the theme of "a man bent on conquest and adventure, to whom love is but an episode in a life of combat and struggle." Zemlinsky used a baritone...
...Monday, April 16, and the next day it will be in Buffalo. After a concert in Detroit next Wednesday, the tour will end in Cleveland on April 19. A special rehearsal will be held with the Cleveland orchestra at the Masonic Hall for the "Chant de guerre" by Florent Schmitt...