Word: rimsky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always, young Callimahos played a silver flute. But it had two more keys than the ordinary flute, could play half an octave higher. Callimahos played on it everything from Bach to Rimski-Korsakov and Ravel. He included the 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...