Word: leopolds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the wide portal of a sumptuous residence in Tokyo a slender Pole strode jerkily. Ushered into the presence of his host, he shook respectfully a crinkly parchment hand. Soon two august heads were laid together in musical conspiracy: 1) The silky-haired topknot of Leopold Stokowski, vacationing conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony and 2) The clipped and pomaded poll of Prince Tokugawa, "the Japanese Otto Kahn," a lineal descendant of the Shoguns or Tycoons ("High Princes") who ruled Japan from 1603 until the present Imperial Dynasty was restored...
...proram follows: Quartet in D Minor Mozart Quartet in C Minor Leopold Mannes Quartet in D Flat Major Ernest V. Dohnanyi
...Louis); Scientists A. A. Michelson, Leon S. Moissieff, Paul Radin; Theater Men Gustav Blum, Jed Harris, George S. Kaufman, Al Lewis, Samson Raphaelson, Muni Wisenfrend; Women Welfare Workers Mrs. Sidney C. Borg (New York), Amelia Greenwald (Meridian, Miss.), Mrs. Joseph Leblang (New York), Sophie Irene Loeb (New York), Mrs. Leopold Plaut (New York), Mrs. William D Sporborg (Port Chester, N. Y.), Lillian D. Wald (New York...
...settled itself, but the better element* in a Manhattan audience did so last week when an oldster came out on the stage of Carnegie Hall and with just a little difficulty made his way across and up on to the conductor's stand. He was 82-year-old Leopold Auer, teacher of such famed violinists as Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist. For the second time† in the ten years he has been in the U. S., Professor Auer was appearing in public-not in his own behalf but to lend importance to the debut of another pupil...
...York Oratorio Society-an organization which may in time come to play as important a part in the musical life of the community as the orchestra of the Paris Conservatoire; there will be three concerts this winter with soloists chosen by Madame Marcella Sembrich from the best vocal students. Leopold Auer, famed violinist and teacher of such musicians as Jascha Heifetz, and Efrem Zimbalist, will select three of the most able violinists in the Graduate School and train them himself. An appropriation has been made for publishing worthy works by U. S. composers, to be issued as the Juilliard Editions...