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...Metropolitan Museum was buzzing, too. Besides displaying the impressive private collections of Museum Benefactors Edward S. and Mary Stillman Harkness and Sam Lewisohn, the Metropolitan is getting set for next month's show, "American Sculpture, 1951." Last year a group of advance-guard artists blasted the museum (and boycotted its "American Painting Today, 1950") because the jury was too conservative for them. So far this time, three conservative sculptors have boycotted the show, and blasted the jury as too advanced...
...Lewisohn Stadium Concerts, Manhattan: Joseph Szigeti, Dorothy Kirsten, Claudio Arrau, Nathan Milstein, guest soloists; Alexander Smallens, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Pierre Monteux, Vladimir Golschmann conducting...
Last week, in the wings at Carnegie Hall, smiling Pianist Barere confided to Eugene Ormandy: "When I played with Pierre Monteux [at Lewisohn Stadium last summer], he told me, 'I hope this won't be the last time we play together.' May I say the same thing to you now?" Ormandy smiled in gracious agreement...
Died. Sam A. (for Adolph) Lewisohn, 66, Manhattan millionaire, financier, esthete; of a heart attack; while on vacation in Santa Barbara, Calif. Along with money, he inherited from his father Adolph the family tradition of cultural philanthropy. In a big-city way, Lewisohn followed the small-town ideal of the civic-spirited citizen; helped run Manhattan's famed Lewisohn Stadium concerts; pioneered in prison reform, was the only businessman ever to head the American Prison Association; tried to smooth labor-management relations (Human Leadership in Industry) ; worked at art collecting and art criticism (Painters and Personality...
...this year, CBS has axed its CBS Symphony, its once-fine Invitation to Music and its summer symphony broadcasts from Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium. Listeners can still hear the New York Philharmonic-Symphony on Sunday-but only a tape recording of the preceding week's program, broadcast at 1 p.m. E.S.T. instead of at the more profitable (to a sponsor...