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...Honolulu, sometime Violinist Jack (Love in Bloom) Benny got together after 45 years with his old violin teacher, retired Yale Professor Hugo Kortschak, who remembered him as 14-year-old Benny Kubelsky at the Chicago Musical College. "My, how you've grown," said the professor. Benny, a grown-up 59, recalled that he "was crazy to be a concert violinist. But I'm like most golfers-I like to play, but I never practiced." After the chat, the professor remarked on the pity of it all: "He probably would have gone far. He showed a lot of promise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 3, 1953 | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

...Coolidge began a series of chamber music festivals in her newly finished Music Temple on South Mountain, near Pittsfield. To them she brought the most capable and renowned musicians in the world. The names of Hugo Kortschak, Willem Willeke, Jacques Gordon, Rudolf Kolisch, William Kroll, Albert Spalding, Myra Hess, and hosts of others appear on these programs. In these years she organized the Berkshire Quartet, the Coolidge Quartet, and the Elshuco Trio. She inaugurated in 1921 the Coolidge Prize for chamber music compositions and began commissioning works by contemporary composers. The list of those she has helped in this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 1/19/1949 | See Source »

...first appearance at Harvard for almost two years, the London String Quartet will give a public concert in Sanders Theatre. It will be assisted by a chamber orchestra composed of members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hugo Kortschak. Tickets are obtainable at the Music Building from 9 to 12 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LONDON QUARTET WILL GIVE CONCERT TONIGHT | 4/20/1932 | See Source »

Through the generosity of the Library of Congress, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation, the London String Quartet will give a concert here on Wednesday, April 20. The quartet will be assisted by a chamber orchestra composed of members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Hugo Kortschak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LONDON STRING QUARTET GIVES CONCERT APRIL 20 | 4/13/1932 | See Source »

...Lets Quartet, assisted by the viola soloist, Mr. Hugo Kortschak, will give a concert this evening at 8.15 in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building under the auspices of the Department of Music. The quartet will present the following program: Quartet in D major, Op. 76, No. 5 Haydn Gregorian Quartet in One Movement David Stanley Smith Quintet for Two Violins, Two Violas and 'Cello Brahms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO GIVE CONCERT TONIGHT | 12/16/1921 | See Source »

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