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...recitalist gravely bows and sails into Beethoven and Brahms, the hall may be thronged with applauding listeners. But the intake at the box office usually runs somewhere from $6.50 to a few hundred dollars. Concert names that are big enough to draw real money in Manhattan (Rachmaninoff, Menuhin, Kreisler, Hofmann) can be counted on ten fingers. Even famed Violinist Joseph Szigeti netted a mere $200 on a last year's Manhattan recital...
Cost of a Manhattan recital, complete with trimmings, is between $700 and $1,200, less the generally negligible box-office take. For this figure a recitalist gets a piano, publicity, tickets, an accompanist (if he needs one), and the services (at a 20% rake-off) of an established musical manager, and a first-class hall. (Carnegie, on the Philharmonic's off nights, rents for $400; Town Hall, a few blocks downtown, for $300; smaller auditoriums at $75 a night & up.) The manager, if he is a good one. has already booked halls for the most desirable dates...
Last week Tenor George Garner was the first recitalist of the season to sell out the great Civic Opera House. Widow Blackstone is dead, her musty old mansion demolished. But thanks to her and rich Mrs. Jacob R. Custer, young Garner has had six years' study abroad. Last week, singing for the benefit of unemployed Negroes, he proved that he had made much of his opportunities. He has acquired an Oxford accent, learned better how to manage a voice that is strong, smooth, mellow...
During 1922-23 Mr. Casella's triumphs as recitalist, soloist with orchestra, and conductor, continued. He played the Mozart D Minor Concerto with the Boston Symphony and his own arrangement of Albeniz's "Spanish Rhapsody" with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland, Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago Symphony Orchestras. Then for a time he absented himself from the American musical scene, devoting all of his energies to writing and composing...
...Kraft is a fellow of the American Guild of Organists and well known throughout the country as a recitalist. Before going to Cleveland he was city organist of Atlanta, Georgia. His ability as both composer and performer has given him an enviable reputation as an American artist. The recital at St. John's Chapel will be open...