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...year-old Ruth Slenczynski will give 30 U. S. concerts this season. Manhattan's Carnegie Hall is so big that the only adult pianists who will play there this month are Josef Hofmann and Artur Schnabel. But Carnegie was not too big for Pianist Ruth Slenczynski last week. Three thousand New Yorkers were delighted to pay to hear a child so confident that she will attempt the weightiest music, so pert that she will suggest a different tempo to an experienced conductor like Bernardino Molinari...
Pianists. Sergei Rachmaninoff had given 30 U. S. concerts when he sailed last week for Europe. Josef Hofmann arrived on the Rex, attended briefly to his duties at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, then took to the road. José Iturbi, the elfin little Spaniard who sometimes conducts, was working his way up the Pacific Coast. In Manhattan such steady oldtimers as Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsch were drawing their own faithful audiences. Artur Schnabel was doubling his success of last season. In Detroit Myra Hess, greatest of women pianists, began a tour of 40 concerts. Ignace Jan Paderewski...
...years have passed since the Curtis Institute of Music opened its expensive wrought-iron doors in Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia. But the first Curtis commencement exercises were held last week. Scene was Casimir Hall, named for Casimir Hofmann, father of Pianist Josef Hofmann who directs the Institute for his great & good friend Mary Louise Curtis Bok. Curtis Publishing Co. gave Mrs. Bok her money and Mrs. Bok's money has given the Curtis Institute its proud reputation.* She hires the best instructors, takes only talented students, charges no tuition. Hence rare honor went with the 78 diplomas distributed among...
...will be free to retire their prodigy daughter. Impressible Ruth favors concerts for three months a year at least. Next year's performances will earn her $2,500 apiece, a fatter fee than is asked by such adult artists as José Iturbi, Myra Hess, Vladimir Horowitz, Josef Hofmann...
Reasons for the growing interest in Wagner are the contingent of excellent German artists now at the Met; the Company's acquisition last year of Soprano Frida Leider, Contralto Maria Olszewska and Basso Ludwig Hofmann; the improvement of Tenor Lauritz Melchior since Conductor Arturo Toscanini rehearsed him in Bayreuth summer before last; the quickened inspiration of Conductor Artur Bodanzky. During the War New York preferred to do without German opera. It took the conservative Met a good ten years to build up its German wing to something like pre-War strength. During that time a new generation of Wagner...