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Conductor Albert Coates, who arrived in Manhattan fortnight ago to direct the Lewisohn Stadium concerts (TIME, Aug. 10), has broadcast many a radio program in England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R. Last week it became evident that he had listened to many a radio broadcast as well. Having conferred with Columbia Broadcasting System's wireless engineers and having experimented on his own in England, he had some observations and predictions to make about radio...
...York City's Lewisohn Stadium last week went hollow-eyed Willem Van Hoogstraten, having conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra there for three weeks. After a program of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bach and Brahms (apparently his favorite composer), he was given tokens of esteem in recognition of his ten-year association with the Stadium concerts, set out for Philadelphia to direct the Philadelphia Orchestra concerts in Robin Hood Dell Park. Next he will go to Europe, return in the autumn to conduct his seventh season in Portland...
...cause of Mrs. Mitchell's social inactivity became known last week, when on the program of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony concert in the Lewisohn Stadium appeared a Polonaise by Chopin-Mitchell. Mrs. Mitchell, long an amateur pianist and student of harmony, had studied orchestration under Composer Rubin Goldmark. Why not show what she could do with the work of Frédéric François Chopin, composer and friend to pretty women and romantic dowagers? Said she: "I didn't let anyone know. It was more fun than playing bridge or going to parties...
...part in honoring the late great financier George Fisher Baker, Financier Adolph Lewisohn of Manhattan took occasion to remind the public: "When I gave the School of Mines Building to Columbia [University] the building was to be named the Lewisohn Building and Mr. Baker, then one of the trustees of Columbia, advised me to call it the Columbia School of Mines Building. . . . He had inserted in the floor of the front entrance of the building a tablet reading: 'This building is the gift of Adolph Lewisohn. . . . Mr. Baker was a good adviser in all matters...
...Ingres and familiar with the methods of the impressionists among whom he worked, his work soon reached out into new fields and he combined his peculiar gift of almost geometric design with brilliant studies of occupational scenes and actions. Among those who have contributed to the exhibition are: Adolph Lewisohn, Knoedler and Company, Dur-and-Ruel Incorporated, H. J. Sachs '10, Jacques Seligman and Company, and Wildenstein and Company...