Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helter-skelter Ethel Leginska, affects a jacket which resembles an old-fashioned Prince Albert.* She grew up in Oakland, Calif., studied for five years with Karl Muck in Germany. She has conducted successfully in Berlin, Hamburg, Manhattan. Women proclaim her a genius. Men say that she is an excellent musician who has a clean, sure beat...
CROWELL, has added the first full length biography of Mendelsohn to its rapidly growing library of the lives of interesting people. The story of the musician's struggles against his professional antagonists in Berlin and against his position as a man born in the Jewish faith is dramatically and interestingly told by Schirma Kaufman one of the younger members of the Philadelphia Orchestra...
Kaufman has especially shown a sympathetic understanding of the minor details of the musician's environment and the effect of his heritage on his compositions and behaviour. He portrays the strong influence of the orthodox character of the senior Mendelsohn on his son's education, the fight against the Jewish faith and its consequent reaction after becoming protestant, and the guiding spirit of the great Goothe with a comprehensive touch which can only be given by a writer who knows his subject
Breaking into a serious vein the maestro said that in his opinion a college education is a definite advantage to a young man whose ambition it is to become leading career musician...
...purely classical product or that of the "Jazz Age," is, he pointed out, now receiving the recognition of intelligent audiences in addition to that of the bourgeois following. Intelligent audiences demand intelligent and gifted entertainers, a fact which naturally gives the well-educated college graduate an advantage over the musician risen from the ranks...