Word: monath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friends of Music was founded by a smart Manhattan business executive named Ira A. Hirschmann (vice president of Bloomingdale's department store) in order to impress a lady pianist he wanted to marry. Some men buy their prospective brides platinum rings. Black-haired Ira Hirschmann gave Pianist Hortense Monath the New Friends to play with...
When Soprano Lotte Lehmann, hired for a selected group of Schubert Lieder, complained that the management had refused to sell extra seats on the stage, and that she felt lonely without a stageful of her devoted admirers, Impresario Monath fixed her with a steely stare. "Mme. Lehmann," said she coldly, "you are not alone on the stage. Franz Schubert is with...
Even the most astute of Manhattan musical managers prophesied that Impresario Monath's funereally earnest concert-giving would end in a bust. But Manhattan concertgoers bought out 97% of the first season's tickets before she had even presented her first concert. Today, the New Friends still operate without the help of wealthy patrons, still qualify as one of the very few entirely self-supporting high-brow musical institutions...