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Geniuses FIGHTERS OF FATE-J. Arthur Myers-Williams & Wilkins ($3). Author Myers has selected 24 distinguished hosts to the bacillus of tuberculosis, living and dead, and retold the story of their lives, in detail where their struggle with the disease is concerned. Paganini is first. Then comes Schiller. Then Bichat. A gloomy procession which marched (bravely and blindly) before the day of Koch and his discovery, before modern science had tamed the scourge. Gradually the light dawns. The last fighter depicted is Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, fruitful and saved. The author disbelieves in the theory that tuberculosis produces...
...taken him, a prodigy of Manhattan's lower East Side, taught him the technic taught, of the he violin. As he had been taught, so he played at his debut-the Elgar Concerto & Tschaikovsky's in D with 60 men from the Philharmonic, a Debussy-Paganini-Bethoven group with the piano. His tone was full, his fingers fleet, his ways pleasing. Critics used superlatives to de scribe his virtuosity, bewailed that he had been unable to grasp more of his teacher's glowing intelligence as yet unmatched by any pupil...
...piano debut and Nellie Melba's when she first sang to Melbourne, Australia. Handel was skilled on the organ, Meyerbeer on the piano, Schumann at composing, Kreisler and Joachim on the violin, at 7. Eight-year-old Ottavio Gallo (above) has Bach and Paganini as precedents for his precocity. Chopin, Liszt and Rimsky-Korsakov were first famed as nine-year-olds. Mendelssohn, Schubert, Stravinsky and Boomfield-Zeisler waited until they were 10 before startling the music world; Beethoven, Saint-Saens and Florence Easton, until they were 11. Tetrazzini trilled at 12. Jenny Lind, Pietro Mascagni, Percy Grainger, Marcella Sembrich...
Friday evening in oJrdan Hall a concert by Carmela Ippolito, capable local violiniste. She will play a Sonata of Pizzetti, the Tschaikovsky Concerto, a Romance of Sinding and the "Witches' Dance", Paganini-Loeffier...
Sixteen years ago, a new star was heralded on the horizon of music. A young Dutch violinist, Peter van der Meer, late of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, gave a violin recital in Carnegie Hall. His interpretation of Paganini's Concerto in D Major met with especial acclaim. But soon Van der Meer was forgotten. In 1915, he became blind, after a long illness. He spent six years in the Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan. Recently he was pronounced cured-but his sight had left him forever...