Word: kreislers
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...Carnegie Hall, as if for Kreisler or Paderewski, a great crowd gathered. Its chief motive seemed to be curiosity. Its reward was an exhibition of incredibly bad singing. But few seemed to mind. The bulk of the audience applauded loudly, encouraged the kittenish Walska ways, the heaving surface sorrows, until the few real friends of music present were as mortified for their fellow listeners as for the performer...
...Gold Coast Orchestra will lend a more than modern touch in its first spring appearance away from Cambridge, with futuristic interpretations of "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" and "Pale Moon" by way of contrast to selections such as those from Chaminade, Nevin and Kreisler which will be presented by the Mandolin Club and specialty numbers...
Many a first name has been dropped with fame. Kreisler needs no Fritz for identification, no Mister for his dignity. Neither does Paderewski need his Ignaze Jan, nor Gieseking now his Walter. But ten years ago Kreisler was a celebrated violinist and Paderewski was the Premier of Poland as well as pianist, while Giese king was just a young German whose money had gone in the War and whose profession was music. Swiftly, however, his reputation was made, first with modern music, because in Germany there was a demand for all music that had been made during Wartime, music particularly...
Died. Emil Fuchs,* 62, famed Austrian painter, sculptor and etcher of monarchs and geniuses; by suicide in his Manhattan studio. Artistic conqueror of four cities: Berlin, Rome, London, New York, he sculpted Wilhelm Hohenzollern; painted King Edward VII, Fritz Kreisler, Serge Rachmaninoff, Elbert H. Gary; designed the King Edward VII postage stamp of the British Empire. Recently he acquired internal cancer. He left a note to his sister: "I am already a burden to myself and my surroundings...
Andrès Segovia is to the guitar what La Argentina is to the castanets, Casals to the cello, Kreisler to the violin. Last year his U. S. debut was one of the major events of the season. Last week he played again without accompaniment, music by Handel, Bach, Haydn, Albeniz, with such skill and understanding as to hold his Manhattan audience rapt...