Word: levitzki
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...