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...night last week, under a bright quarter moon, Manhattan music fans gathered for the season's first outdoor concert at Lewisohn Stadium. A stocky, apple-cheeked woman, violin in hand, marched to the center of the stage, nodded confidently to the conductor...
...like dozens of other ambitious youngsters every year, and unlike most, he had won the nod. Last week, short, chunky Isaac Stern was back in Manhattan to be the first soloist o'f the season with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in the an nual summer concerts in Lewisohn Sta dium. To his native gifts, which he would be the last to call genius, he had added the three Ps of success: 1) patronage, 2) plug ging. 3) practice...
This week, confident behind the big tone and brilliant technique which resembles the work of Jascha Heifetz, the violinist he most admires, Isaac Stern again took his place on the stage in front of another San Franciscan, walrus-mustached Pierre Monteux, the first conductor of the season at Lewisohn. Said Isaac: "When I look back, I tremble to think of other kids going through the same thing...
...Charles and Julia Henry Fund Fellowships were established by the bequest of Lady Julia Lewisohn Henry "in the earnest hope and desire of cementing the bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States." They were first awarded...
...unself-conscious way, Helen never doubted that she would be a great singer, and because she was so sure, she was in no hurry. When she was 23, in the summer of 1926, Rudolph Ganz, the conductor of the St. Louis Symphony, took her to New York's Lewisohn Stadium for a guest appearance. That was the year Lauritz Melchior made his Metropolitan debut in Tannhäuser, an event eclipsed by another debut the evening of the same day. With the greatest blowing & puffing of publicity ever to accompany a U.S. operatic debut, Marion Talley, an 18-year...