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Frances Loeb maintained a lifetime of philanthropy, and was a benefactor of Barnard College, the Loeb Student Center at New York University, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Central Park in New York City and Lewisohn Stadium...
...Annenberg paintings will mesh very well with the Met's holdings of 19th and early 20th century art, their foundations laid by the massive Havemeyer bequest of 1929 and reinforced by legacies from Stephen Clark, Sam Lewisohn and Robert Lehman. Annenberg's paintings include several Cezannes, most conspicuously the great 1902-06 panorama of Mont Sainte-Victoire, so different from the Met's more constricted version of the same subject. The collection includes works by Gauguin, Monet, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec and Bonnard, and a group of Monets from the 1870s -- a phase of the master's work not well represented...
Midstream may remind a few of Ludwig Lewisohn's Mid-Channel. Sixty years ago, this journalist also tired of Manhattan's temptations and asked, "How do you live from within outward? From what ultimate satisfactions do you derive your poise, your power, your courage in the face of this apparently empty universe, of age, of death?" Schreiber offers some honest answers...
...Philharmonic. She was 28 years old, and the first woman ever to secure that honor--the stuff of which dreams are made. The 40 years that followed have been, for Brico, mostly a story of dreams deferred. Aside from a handful of guest-conducting engagements at the Metropolitan Opera, Lewisohn Stadium and the New York Philharmonic, she has been unable to crack one of the few remaining exclusively male fields...
Indeed, his concerts were less appreciated by critics than by hoods. Mobster Frank Costello was one of his biggest fans. In New York's Lewisohn Stadium, Levant annually played Gershwin to a bench of discriminating cauliflower ears...