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After all only $32,000,000 was loaned to Germany last week, at 6½%. England, Holland, Switzerland, Sweden and the U. S. participated with Goodwill Lender France. Manhattan's Lee, Higginson & Co. head the loaning consortium. Jewish éclat is furnished notably by Mendelssohn & Co. of Amsterdam, N. M. Rothschild & Sons...
...York Evening Post which spends much of its editorial time in the field of college activity came out recently with a denunciation of the "highbrow" drift which had swept away the old college Glee Club. Says the Post. "College boys are not professional singers. The Mendelssohn and other choral societies meet a fine public need. But the undergraduate should not be called upon to live up to their standards of excellence. The under-graduate should express and control his own music just as he should express and control his own football...
...three canvassed the city for subscriptions, engaged Conductor Albert Stoessel. Now the annual concerts in Mechanics Hall are rewarded with increasing enthusiasm. Orchestral numbers, choruses and solos won high praise last week. Outstanding feature came at the second concert when prodigious Ruggiero Ricci, aged 9, played his violin in Mendelssohn's E Minor Concerto. Because of pending litigation between his parents and his guardian, Violinist Mary Elizabeth Lackey (TIME, Aug. 11), young Ricci had been forbidden to leave New York State unguarded by police. Two stalwart officers accompanied him to the very stage of Mechanics Hall...
...Mendelssohn: Midsummer-Night's Dream: Overture (Columbia, two records. $2 ea.). Probably the best, certainly the most popular of all Mendelssohn, this overture was written when the composer was a youth of 17. Columbia's new rendition is conducted ably but not brilliantly by Elie Cohen, Chef d'Orchestre at the Paris Opera Comique...
...Romanticism: Schubert, Schuman, Mendelssohn, and Weber". Professor Hill, Music Building...