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...will present one of the 15 lecture-concerts being given weekly throughout the year at the Academy of Music under Olin Downes, Music Critic and New York Times Commentator. Some distinguished artists are on the schedule at the Academy this year, including Lawrence Tibbet, baritone; Lily Pons, soprano; Yehudi Menuhin, violinist; and Richard Crooks, tenor...
...regular week-end series of concerts will present the Twelfth concerto Grosse of Handel, the "Adelaide" Concerto of Mozart and the Beethoven Concerto in D, played by Yohudi Menuhin, and Three Excerpts from "the Damnation of Faust" by Berlioz...
Hephzibah Menuhin and her famous brother, Yehudi, have collaborated to record Mozart's Sonata in A (Kochel No. 526). Sister Hephzibah gives a creditable and authoritative performance at the piano which truly collaborates rather than assists. These sonatas have formerly been used for informal family affairs by aspiring musical amateurs. This sonata, written in the great creative year of Mozart is one of the more serious sonatas, though it is generally in a pleasant and jolly mood. There are, however, frequent lapses into solemn and, plaintive movement even in the Allegro and Presto. The conventional ornaments for the sake...
...hear three unusually distinctive symphony concerts this week-end. Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra will broadcast this afternoon from 2.30 P.M. to 4 P.M. over WABC a wholesome programme of Beethoven and Bach: the Leonore Overture No. 3 and the violin concerto in D major with Yehudi Menuhin as soloist, and then the Fugue in G minor, Prelude in E flat minor, and the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F. On Saturday evening at 8.15 P.M. over WEAF the Boston Symphony Orchestra, assisted by Jesus Maria Sanroma, will play the Mozart Symphony in E flat major; Professor Edward Burlingame Hill...
...compositions. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz was with Toscanini's pretty daughter Wanda whom he married a month ago in Milan (TIME, Jan. 1). Janet Olcott,17-year-old daughter of the late Chauncey Olcott, would make her piano début. Bubbling over with talk was mousey little Moshe Menuhin, father of Yehudi. Yehudi had practiced with Toscanini every day aboard ship and Toscanini was a "very lovable man." Yehudi had received two telegrams from Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, Hitler's music man, asking him to "help mend the broken threads between Germany and the rest...