Word: samaroff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back from Europe came Olga Samaroff, able pianist turned kindly critic for the New York Evening Post, wrote last week for her paper a very earnest article. Said she: "I doubt if anything could be more depressing to a musician of European education than to make a journey of investigation into musical conditions overseas today...
...accident resulting in Mme. Samaroff's new engagement was a fall which tore a ligament in her left shoulder. A long series of concert engagements, including a White House musicale on Feb. 4, was canceled...
...Samaroff's connection with the Post, which begins next Friday, Jan. 1, is a departure in American journalism...
...first time in the history of musical criticism in the United States that a concert artist of Mme. Samaroff's rank and distinction has undertaken such work. As a rule, a successful concert career precludes the possibility of such an undertaking; and but for an accident Mme. Samaroff's many concert engagements would have taken her as far as the Pacific Coast during the next few months...
...have been the wife of Leopold Stokowski* from 1911 to 1923 would have filled life with sufficient eventfulness for most mortals, for few men have been more lionized than the peerless conductor of Philadelphia's orchestra. But for Mme. Samaroff, the shock of exciting events began before her birth. A dozen European races mingled to produce her, and she was born in San Antonio, Tex. Thence her path has been paved with incidents, even to the prospect of pronouncing upon her divorced husband's orchestral reading as he leads an orchestra to which her present employer, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis...