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...state dinner at the White House ended the Supreme Court's preholiday session. The Justices and their ladies found the table decorated with pink chrysanthemums, ate a bit of cheese for National Cheese Week, were entertained by Pianist Josef Hofmann and Soprano Frieda Hempel afterward...
Artur Rodzinski. Vladimir Golschmann, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Nikolai Sokoloff, Tullio Serafin. Soloists to come: Rosa Ponselle, Yehudi Menuhin, Efrein Zimbalist, Josef Hofmann, Jose Iturbi, Vladimir Horowitz. Lily Pons, Lucrezia Bori, Lotte Lehmann, Elisabeth Rethberg, Tito Schipa, Richard Bonelli...
...violinist if the War had not intervened. When Ruth was 2 he bought her a $10 toy piano. She wanted a "big one." He sold a diamond ring and got it for her. At 5 she had a repertoire of 200 pieces, could transpose them into any key. Josef Hofmann offered her a scholarship at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, but when he turned her over to an assistant Father Slenczynski packed her up and took her to Europe where he taught her himself, learning one piece after another just a jump ahead of her. Until she is bigger Father...
...like Beethoven, a comfortable back so that the player could sit relaxed and let his shoulder muscles work for him. Nowhere in New York was such a chair to be found. Pianists like Rachmaninoff and Iturbi who depend mostly on their wrists use stools without backs. Paderewski and Hofmann who play more from their shoulders use chairs with backs which tip forward a little. None of these suited Artur Schnabel, the square-headed little Austrian who was to solo with the Philharmonic-Symphony. Finally one was made...
...this season's Ring performances surpass those of many years: Soprano Frida Leider, whose Briinnhilde last week made startlingly credible the creature half goddess, half woman, which Wagner imagined, dark handsome Contralto Maria Olszewska, who like Frida Leider used to sing with the Chicago Civic Opera; Basso Ludwig Hofmann whose Hagen was a model of malevolence. These three with Tenor Lauritz Melchior, the Siegfried, and Baritone Friedrich Schorr, who last week was Hagen's weak-kneed half-brother Gunther, caused Critic Lawrence Gilman to write in the Herald Tribune: ". . . The score has not been so beautifully and movingly...