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...Chamber Music Hall of the Library of Congress. The occasion was the first public concert by the Curtis Quartet, organization composed of members of the faculty of the Curtis Institute ot Music in Philadelphia. The quartet, composed of Karl Flesch, Emanuel Zetlin (violinists), Louis Bailly (violist), Felix Salmond, musicians all of them before they were pedagogs, played with great skill and understanding numbers by Haydn, Beethoven and Bach, won much honest applause from the invited audience...
...such rules and precedents are not made for masters; they are made by them, and may be broken by them at will. Last week Ignace Jan Paderewski appeared at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, jointly with Efrem Zimbalist (violinist), Felix Salmond ('cellist) and Harold Bauer, "who turned the pages," in a performance of Beethoven's Trio in B-flat...
...audience rose, cheered, stamped, shouted, whistled, howled. They patiently endured intermediate numbers by Salmond and Zimbalist, only to burst forth again at the reappearance of the idol of two generations. Then the stage lights were lowered, just as Paddy first had them lowered in the same place early in the 90's. Then-the Schubert-Liszt Hark, Hark, the Lark, the melting melody of the 'Schubert B-flat Impromptu, and the inevitable Chopin group: Etudes, hurled like glittering lances, and a Scherzo that stung, bit and cooed seductively. Then encores-until the approach of the zero hour when...
...gracious act of self-effacement for Efrem Zimbalist and Felix Salmond to assist Mr. Paderewski...
mighty Pole attached no higher importance than did Beethoven to the parts for violin and cello, for his Olympian thunders almost completely drowned out the none too insistent playing of Messrs. Salmond and Zimbalist...