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...find out who killed cock-robin. No great discernment is required to discover the "murderee" who is obligingly killed in a convenient boat house. Stuart Irwin indulges in recitation in order to test the sound proofing of the boat-house walls and there is a delightful scene in a Hamburg stand with a proprietor who defends with incredible logic his fondness for police reports...
...When a Hamburg bull-fiddler and his 44-year-old wife produced a lumpish son 100 years ago, the world was blessed with one of its greatest musical creators. The infant son was Johannes Brahms, who lived to grow a beard which was worthy of his name. At the end of this I season that name will have added luster, for Arturo Toscanini is conducting the New York Philharmonic in no less than 18 all-Brahms concerts...
Brahms' chance came when a popular gypsy violinist visited Hamburg and suddenly needed an accompanist. The gypsy taught Brahms to love Hungarian dances. He introduced him to Joachim who paved the way to the famed friendship with Robert and Clara Schumann. Robert Schumann, one of the great influences of his day, preached Brahms' genius far and wide. Clara Schumann is supposed to have been Brahms' lifelong love, the inspiration of his tenderest songs. He never married...
...Vienna was hard. Her first real singing teacher dismissed her because she had "no voice" and she struggled for scholarships thereafter, wrote poetry on the side. The first money she earned came from verses submitted to Berlin's Der Tag. In 1910 she made her operatic debut in Hamburg and there she learned routine. One night an Austrian impresario was in the theatre on a hunt for a tenor. He signed up Lotte Lehmann instead...
...many years he has been director of the Kunsthalle, the art museum at Hamburg, where he has assembled a brilliant collection of paintings by old and modern masters...