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Almost exactly 50 years since he first played in Boston as a boy of 11, Joseph Hofmann will present an anniversary recital in Symphony Hall Sunday afternoon...
Last Sunday evening, Pianist Hofmann, now 61, his grey hair encircling a bald spot, his gentle face still distinguished by the cleft chin of his youth, walked upon the Metropolitan stage and 4,000 applauding people rose to their feet. It was 50 years, less a day, since he had made his debut before the U. S. public. For this Golden Jubilee concert the 4,000 had bought out the house long ago, at $15 for the best seats, the proceeds (some $22,000) going to the Musicians Emergency Fund. In the audience were New York's Mayor LaGuardia...
...present, because Pianist Hofmann had felt she was now too feeble to make her first transatlantic trip in 50 years, was his 87-year-old mother. For her, the pianist arranged that the whole Jubilee concert should be recorded. Also not present, to his regret, was the most celebrated member of the honorary, specially-formed "Hofmann Fifty-Year Club" of people who had heard the prodigy during his first months in the U. S. Franklin D. Roosevelt (six years younger than Josef Hofmann) was taken by his mother to hear Hofmann play in 1887, and, as Dr. Damrosch said gracefully...
...program of the Hofmann Jubilee was not one to excite musicians, it was nonetheless admirably suited to the occasion. Pianist Hofmann is the businesslike, hard-working dean and director of Philadelphia's 14-year-old Curtis Institute of Music. For the Jubilee, Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, its benefactor and his good friend, paid the expenses of an orchestra of Curtis students, faculty members and 29 Curtis graduates now playing in major U. S. orchestras, and with the Institute's Fritz Reiner on the podium they played the pompous Academic Festival Overture of Brahms. The date...
...Hofmann spares his hands by letting an assistant help him at lathes and drill presses in the pursuit of his avocation, machinery (see cut). In his three laboratories he has developed, and marketed profitably, pneumatic springs, hydraulic snubbers, oil burner gadgets, piano sound amplification devices...