Word: musiker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Naziland, music by Jewish composers, performances by Jewish musicians, are strictly verboten. So that good Germans may know what music and which musicians to avoid, a Nazi Who's Who of Jewish musicians has been compiled. Its title: Judentum und Musik mil dem ABC jüdischer und nichtarischer Musik-beflissener. The third edition of this witching work, which last week reached U. S. shores, showed Nazi inquisitors to be more thorough than accurate. Among the prominent "Jewish" musicians listed: Chicago's retiring Yankee Composer John Alden Carpenter; rotund Danceband-leader Paul Whiteman; lusty, kewpie-faced Wagnerian Tenor...
...mustachioed German physicist, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, published an enormous volume on the physics and psychology of musical sound. Its enormous title: Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als Physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik. Terser English translators called it Sensations of Tone. Composers and prima donnas paid little attention to Physicist von Helmholtz' monumental brainwork, but the science of acoustics was groggy from it for half a century...
...musicians at Kolomea, Galicia, started to play the cello at the age of seven, played it in concerts at eleven, and at 16 taught it as a professor at the Cologne Conservatory. Ousted by Nazis from his position as teacher in Berlin's Hochschule für Musik in 1933, he embarked on two world tours, was nailed on four continents as one of the greatest living virtuosos. While traveling, Cellist Feuermann never lets his $30,000 Stradivarius cello out of his sight, always buys an extra berth for it when forced to spend the night on the train...
...England's proudest families, was born in Auburndale, Mass, in 1863. Until he was 14 young Parker took little interest in music. Within two years he became a church organist in Dedham, later in Roxbury, forsook his job three years later to study at the Hochschule fur Musik in Munich. In 1886 he returned to the U. S. with a Bavarian bride, got organ posts with churches in Brooklyn, Harlem and Manhattan...
Another feature of the program will be the arrangements by Mr. Holmes of two pieces by Ravel. The complete program is as follows: Overture to lphigenia in Aulis by Gluck-Wagner, Musik zu einem Ritterballet by Beethoven, Deux Chansons by Ravel-Holmes, Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 in C Major, a Piano Group, played by Mr. Leonard Bernstein '39, Valse Triste by Sibelius, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart, and Danse Espagnole by de Falla...