Word: paganinis
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Munich heard his first public performance, called him the "flute Paganini." Athens last summer crowned him with laurel. Last week Lambros Demetrios Callimahos made his U. S. debut in a Manhattan recital publicized as an "attempt to restore the flute as a solo instrument...
...Manhattan première of a Sonata by Paul Hindemith, now visiting the U. S. for the first time (TIME, April 19). Nobody wondered that Callimahos should have been appointed the youngest teacher at the Mozarteum Summer-Academy in Salzburg. Even in Debussy's The Little Shepherd and Paganini's Caprice he was perfectly at home. But critics smitten with his precision admitted that Callimahos sometimes played monotonously and often with so little volume as to be almost inaudible...
...come to Genova. Genova is a city of some 650,00 inhabitants, one night club, a Lido with American shower baths, Paganini's violin, 666 places where Columbus slept, an impressive monument to Cristoforo Colombo and the one and only place where he was born. This latter is a small two story stone house with bars over the windows, a noble inscription saying whose house it was and in much bigger letters a warning saying that anyone posting bills here will be prosecuted...
...great violinists, is to give a recital on Sunday afternoon at 3.30 in Symphony Hall. The program includes Schumann's Fantasy in C major, Opus 131, (which Mr. Kreisler has been editing for several years), Bach's Sonata in G minor for violin alone, the second movement of Paganini's Second Concerto, and the Fantasy on Russian themes of Rimsky-Korsakov, arranged by Kreisler...
...impressed Chicago critics with more remarkable feats. When Glenn Dillard Gunn gave him a theme, he quickly responded with a choral prelude which the Herald & Examiner critic almost took for a Bach-Busoni transcription. Pianist Templeton also showed Mr. Gunn he had not only learned Rachmaninoff's new Paganini Rhapsody from records but also could rattle off his own piano transcription of the complicated orchestra score. Alec Templeton amazed Critic Edward Barry of the Chicago Tribune by making a perfectly good piano sound as if it were horribly out of tune. At a recent Chicago party, Pianist Templeton...