Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your "taste test" suggested by Subscriber Lyman Richards of Boston reminds me of a sworn-to-be-true story heard recently at dinner. It does not concern Fiddler Kreisler, nor a Blind sign and cup hung on any famed musician. But it is a thrust, I think, against Mr. Richards' complaint of a widespread musical hypocrisy and his statement that people "impressed by the eminence of artists claim to appreciate what they neither enjoy nor understand...
...Aires, who apparently compiled it by pasting up some of his old notices. He includes a jailbreak, an attempted suicide, a marriage triangle, a race-with-death in fast cars along a headland. The one real and potentially effective suggestion of the picture-the relations between an egotistic young musician and the waif he has married for commercial reasons-is spoiled by Joseph Schildkraut's familiar affectations, his habit of speaking lines of conversation as though he were reciting a Macaulay essay. Silliest shot: the champagne party in the local cabaret...
Died. Capt. William Rind, 57, commander of S. S. President Harding, amateur painter, musician; of an apoplectic stroke; as his ship was entering Plymouth Harbor...
...particularly enthusiastic over last week's Festival. But there was another reason: Conductor Koussevitzky. For he is the Boston Brahmins' high priest and can do no wrong. He is handsome, distinguished in appearance, voted by many the Best-Dressed Man in Boston. He is an excellent musician, the world's greatest virtuoso on the double bass as well as one of the great conductors. His past has been romantic: in Russia before the Revolution he used to sail with his orchestra up and down the Volga, giving concerts in all the basin towns, introducing much new music...
...clock tonight in Paine Hall in the Music Building Georges Enesco will give a violin recital under the auspices of the Division of Music and of the Fine Arts. The celebrated Rumanian musician, who will be accompanied by Sanford Schlussel, will give four informal talks, on April 15, 22, 29, and May 6, in which he will tell of his experiences in the field of music and his reminiscences of associations with such well-known masters as Massenel, Farre, Gedalge, and Debussy...