Word: hirschmann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leader of these irate subscribers was Ira Hirschmann, bright-eyed, bushy-haired vice president of Manhattan's Saks-Fifth Avenue department store. Fed up with the system of wealthy patronage which controls the destinies of most U. S. symphony orchestras. Rebel Hirschmann decided to launch his own musical organization, founded the New Friends of Music Inc. Scheduling a series of concerts devoted exclusively to chamber music, music's New Friends offered no stars but gave steady subscribers a chance to hear all the important chamber music Beethoven and Brahms ever wrote...
Last spring, as the New Friends of Music concluded their second successful season without benefit of Park Avenue patronage, Ira Hirschmann announced, for the season of 1938-39, that the usual array of chamber-music events would be augmented by 1) a brand-new, 36-man chamber orchestra, and 2) a conductor: Fritz Stiedry of Vienna's Volksoper and Leningrad's Philharmonic...
Married. Ira Arthur Hirschmann. 35, vice president of Saks-Fifth Avenue (Manhattan department store); to Pianist Hortense Monath, 29. with whose aid Hirschmann launched the New Friends of Music (TIME, Nov. 15); by New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, in Miss Monath's Manhattan apartment...
...from 5:30 to 7 p. m. As before, applause is frowned upon and there is no chatty intermission. Devout subscribers will hear nothing but Mozart, Schubert, Schumann. For the first time, all the music will be recorded by RCA Victor; some of it in advance. Friend of Music Hirschmann's thesis- that chamber music is too rarely played in public, too hard to get on discs-had scored another point...
Pianist Monath collaborated with Ira Hirschmann from the founding of the New Friends, last week was about to become his bride. The programs which she planned for him last year bore heavily on Brahms, emphasized the evolution of Beethoven's musical thought, showed the place of the piano in chamber music. In planning this year's programs, Pianist Monath performed the notable feat of reading through the massive tome, Chronologisch-systematisches Verzeichnis sammtlicher Tonwerke Mozarts, by Dr. Ludwig Ritter von Kochel, who patiently numbered each & every one of Mozart's voluminous works. She emerged with such rarities...