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...procession. They were followed by Conductor Enrique Fernandez Arbos, guest of the St. Louis Symphony, Guitarist Andrès Segovia, and Dancer Argentina who makes music with her heels and castanets. This year has added two more names, the Aguilar Lutanists (TIME, Dec. 2) and José Iturbi, famed throughout Europe and South America as Spain's greatest pianist...
...Iturbi was born in Valencia 34 years ago. In his early 'teens he won honors at the Valencia and Paris Conservatories but today he says that he has learned most by listening. At 24, while playing in a Zurich café, he was asked to go to the Geneva Conservatory as head of the piano faculty, a post once held by the great Franz Liszt. He accepted, stayed in Geneva for four years, then embarked on a concert career with immediate success...
...months ago Iturbi arrived in the U. S. Sailing up Manhattan harbor, he wept. He went to a hotel chosen for him by his manager, rang for tea but, knowing no English, failed to make the waiter understand. He shrugged his shoulders, sat down at the piano, played Tea for Two, got what he wanted. His first Manhattan night was spent in a Harlem cabaret listening to brazen jazz which he adores, his second at a musicomedy. Then he started on a tour, played first with the Philadelphia Orchestra, went into Canada, then through the Middle West...
Conductor Willem Mengelberg of the New York Philharmonic welcomed Iturbi on his return to Manhattan. He gave him a birthday party, had a many-layered cake fashioned to represent a skyscraper. Iturbi, hugely pleased, cut it with a swoop while Pianist Ernest Schelling looked on with greedy eye. Iturbi sneaked his portion away, took it back to his hotel and sent it, adorned with two candles, to his twelve-year-old daughter in Paris. Soon afterward he appeared as Philharmonic Soloist under Mengelberg, won the acclaim of critics and public alike. Last week he gave a Manhattan recital solo...