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...honorary associate member. The President, who is the first honorary Philharmonic member elected since 1900, wrote: "Entertaining, as I long have, a high opinion of the contributions of this splendid organization to the cause of American musical culture, I am delighted to accept." Other honorary Philharmonic members have been: Mendelssohn, Liszt, Wagner, Dvorak, Vieuxtemps, Jenny Lind, Edwin Booth, Theodore Thomas. ¶ The President tentatively accepted an invitation to speak in Philadelphia on July 4. Exercises are to be conducted in Independence Square under the auspices of the American Bar Association. Accompanied by Senator Pep- per, Harold B. Beitler, Philadelphia attorney...
Pietro Alessandro Yon left a most enduring impression on a Manhattan audience last week, when he dedicated the beautiful new Speyer Organ at the Town Hall. He played Mendelssohn and Bach, and introduced his own Sonata Romantica, as well as Skilton's American Indian Fantasy. The barbaric clangor of this last composition made many of his hearers forget that Yon can, when he wants to, play with such solid gravity that he has been appointed honorary organist to St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, and that he holds his active post at New York's Church...
This evening in Jordan Hall Miss Florence Judith Levy will give a concert of pieces for the piano. Her program includes pieces from Bach, Scarlatti, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Debussy and Grainger...
...event, we have been accorded the opportunity of judging the work afresh. It is an opportunity which does not often occur, for full performances of the Ninth are rare. But on March 4, in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, the Philadelphia Orchestra, under the leadership of Leopold Stokowski, combined with the Mendelssohn Choir of Toronto braved the terrors of the formidable masterpiece...
Sunday afternoon, January 27, in Symphony Hall a concert of pieces for the violin by Efrem Zimbalist, too well known to require comment. He will play the Mendelssohn Concerto, a Brahms Sonata and pieces by Reger and Sarasate. The second concert of the Steinert series...