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...getting $20 (at previous benefits the fee has been $15). All other services, including management, donated by NBC. A Bach concerto for three pianos executed at one & the same time by Harold Bauer, Ernest Hutcheson, Josef Lhevinne, Ernest Schelling (see p. 32) and two others. Concertos played by Fritz Kreisler and Sergei Rachmaninoff, brought together for the first time at one & the same concert. An all-Tchaikovsky program, with Ossip Gabrilowitsch playing the piano concerto...
Variety, theatrical tradesheet, last week prophesied an end to fee inflation, printed the prices asked by some 50 artists: Soprano Amelita Galli-Curci, $4,500; Violinist Fritz Kreisler, $4,500; Tenor John McCormack, $4,000; Soprano Rosa Ponselle, $3,500; Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, $3,000. . . . Such lists are misleading. Galli-Curci may ask for $4,500 but she seldom gets it now. Many people prefer to hear Lily Pons, the pretty French coloratura who is a novelty and only a little more than half Galli-Curci's age. Kreisler makes $4,500 on many a concert but he makes...
...genius advances. This week he faced a supreme test-the Brahms Concerto with Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony. The Brahms is not showy music designed to demonstrate a fiddler's virtuosity.f Everyone knows now that Yehudi can play trills and double-stops with an assurance worthy of a Kreisler or a Heifetz. Brahms wrote music for grownups, music that is deeply contemplative and tender, faintly austere. People made frantic efforts to get tickets for the concert, not out of vulgar curiosity, but because they felt he could do it justice...
European orchestras usually refuse to have children soloists but Yehudi has been invited to play with the orchestras in all the great capitals. In Berlin when he was 12 he played in one evening the concertos of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms. In the Beethoven he played the Kreisler cadenza which he had learned from a phonograph record. (Most violinists play the Joachim cadenza. Beethoven's own, unworthy of him, was never published.) When he had finished the crowd stood cheering for 20 minutes. After the performance Albert Einstein rushed up to him with tears in his eyes. At the great...
...From news headlines casual readers might have thought last week that Soprano Maria Jeritza, Violinist Fritz Kreisler and Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff had contracted for a radio series with National Broadcasting Co. But these artists have only become affiliated with N. B. C.'s Artists Service, an agency like any other which books flesh & blood concerts. Kreisler and Rachmaninoff are two of the three great artists who have steadfastly refused to broadcast. The third: Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski...