Word: kreislers
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...recitalist gravely bows and sails into Beethoven and Brahms, the hall may be thronged with applauding listeners. But the intake at the box office usually runs somewhere from $6.50 to a few hundred dollars. Concert names that are big enough to draw real money in Manhattan (Rachmaninoff, Menuhin, Kreisler, Hofmann) can be counted on ten fingers. Even famed Violinist Joseph Szigeti netted a mere $200 on a last year's Manhattan recital...
...close to $5,000,000; 2) biggest single season's earnings: $500,000 (for 1922-23); 3) alltime record for a single concert: $33,000 (in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden). Only two other pianists, Rachmaninoff and Hofmann, have topped the million mark, and only five violinists: Kreisler, Heifetz, Elman, Menuhin, Zimbalist. All the rest are singers...
Tenor John McCormack; Violinist Fritz Kreisler...
...Junius Spencer Morgan, daughter-in-law of J. P., wrote Citizens' Song for the Citizens' Committee for the Army & Navy, whose vice chairman she is. The song was sung by oldtime Soprano Anna Case (widow of Clarence H. Mackay), with Fritz Kreisler at the piano, at a beefsteak party in a Manhattan brewery. Chorus...
...Fritz Kreisler did his first professional playing since he was injured in traffic last April: a recording in a Philadelphia studio...