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...Jeritza fell on her face, coolly sang the tender aria Vissi d'arte prone. Margaret Anglin once stalked out onto the Carnegie Hall stage to declaim Electra's grief, was appalled to find a cat peering out of her flowing Greek gown. Once when Mischa Levitzki was performing in Carnegie Hall, a mouse crept close to the piano, sat up when the pianist played softly, scuttled off when he played loudly, returned for the pianissimi, required four men to catch him. Performing last week in, St. Louis, plump French Pianist Robert Casadesus added a lively chapter...
...Bach transcriptions, arranged by Lucien Cailliet, a jolly bespectacled Frenchman, known by Philadelphians as one of their regular clarinetists. After Cailliet's Bach came Mozart's Fourth Violin Concerto with Fritz Kreisler as soloist, forerunning such headliners as Josef Hofmann, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Kirsten Flagstad, Vladimir Horowitz, Mischa Levitzki, Jascha Heifetz, Lawrence Tibbett, Artur Schnabel, all sure bait for customers not altogether sure of a youthful new conductor. Fritz Kreisler's spell was sure, while Ormandy kept courteously to the background for the 61-year-old fiddler who, according to his irrepressible wife last week, "would be good...
Pianists Bertha Levitzki and Alberto Sciaretti (sustaining program). Sundays...
...musical events, for which there is hardly space to do more than mention, are taking place over the weekend. This afternoon in Jordan Hall at 3 o'clock, Mischa Levitzki, a noted though young pianist, will give a recital of Beethoven, Schumann, Chop n and others. Tomorrow at 3.30 in Symphony Hall, Pablo Casals, the greatest living master of the violoncello, will perform a Sonata of Bach in G. major; a Sonata in D major by Locatelli, our eighteenth century composer; Beethoven's great 'cello Sonata in A major and an Adagio and Allegro by Schumann...
...sounds that issue from an Atwater Kent radio. And the sounds, too, would be different. In place of the comic stripper's unnamable babble, would ring the voices of Louise Homer, Anna Case, Edward Johnson, Mabel Garrison, Reinald Werrenrath, Frieda Hempel, the instruments of Toscha Seidel, Mischa Levitzki, the New York State Symphony Orchestra. These artists have already been engaged. Mr. Kent will pay them. The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. will do the broadcasting from WEAF and others of its stations. If phonograph companies consent, other artists now bound by contract will sing on Sunday nights, beginning...