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...will be considered the most important figure in American art of the period since 1935" is an art teacher in Greenwich Village named Hans Hofmann. He painted this...
...pianists who rank with Rubinstein in the estimation of critics don't get around much any more (the great Josef Hofmann is 71, and in semiretirement; Artur Schnabel, 65, unexcelled at Beethoven, plays only a few concerts a year). And Vladimir Horowitz and Jose Iturbi, who ring the cash register as loudly as Rubinstein in individual concerts, don't make the long tours he does...
...tone) for a broadcasting studio will sound all wrong in Carnegie Hall. A piano that is to accompany a violin is adjusted differently from one that is to accompany a cello. A tuner with a sensitive personal touch will tune pianos differently for different pianists. Virtuosos such as Josef Hofmann and the late Sergei Rachmaninoff hire a favorite tuner's fulltime services. Perhaps the most famous piano tuner who ever lived was the late Eldon Joubert of Boston, who for 30 years was Paderewski's constant companion...
...former Manhattan housewife, whose chief excitement in life used to be attending concerts, was changed by Dunkirk into a conspirator. She was tracked around Paris, caught and imprisoned for a year and a half by the Gestapo, and finally handed over to the U.S. in exchange for Johanna Hofmann, Nazi spy and hairdresser extraordinary on the S.S. Enropa. Author Shibers crime: helping to smuggle British soldiers out of Occupied France. Paris-Underground* a Book-of-the-Month Club selection for October, is Mrs. Shiber's exciting story of how she did it. The book is avowedly and completely ghostwritten...
...recitalist gravely bows and sails into Beethoven and Brahms, the hall may be thronged with applauding listeners. But the intake at the box office usually runs somewhere from $6.50 to a few hundred dollars. Concert names that are big enough to draw real money in Manhattan (Rachmaninoff, Menuhin, Kreisler, Hofmann) can be counted on ten fingers. Even famed Violinist Joseph Szigeti netted a mere $200 on a last year's Manhattan recital...