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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...price of season tickets will be lower. Subscribers will pay $2 to $5 less for the long series, $1 to $2.50 less for the short. ¶ There will be the usual familiar faces among the soloists-Gabrilowitsch, Ganz, Petri-but there will also be some new ones, including Poldi Mildner, 18-year-old ''Cyclone of the Piano" whose swift, sharp, unorthodox playing last year gave Manhattan music critics food for many a journalistic difference of opinion. ¶ The trustees look for no reduction in their deficit this year. Last year's was $114,000. but this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chicago Symphony | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

...enter the U. S. as an artist. News columns headlined the story but few people took account of it until a few days later when she made her formal U. S. concert debut in Manhattan's Town Hall. Then people who heard her went wild with enthusiasm. Poldi Mildner played at a terrific, breath-taking pace, with a force and authority which few women pianists ever attain. As the audience's excitement grew she played faster & faster. There seemed no limit to the speed with which her fingers could cover the keys. But aside from her technical skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Viennese Acrobat | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

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