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...Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe. But in music the situation is back again on a par with painting. Women have given birth to no great music. There have been no Beethovens among them, no Bachs, no Wagners. There have been no conductors of importance, no Toscaninis, no Stokowskis, no Mucks. Olga Samaroff, Guiomar Noväes, Gitta Gradova, Myra Hess, Yolanda Merp are capable pianists, but then so is Ignace Jan Paderewski. The list might...
...most thoughtfully pondered. The critics of the Manhattan newspapers derided, ignored. Said Critic Chotzinoff of the New York World: "This is making a mountain out of an antheil" (referring to the indubitably distinguished audience). Said a more facetious one: "Carnegie Hall was sold out two ways." Critic Olga Samaroff of the Post compared the symphony to a gargantuan bull-fiddle that a medieval potentate had created-an instrument requiring a team of asses for transportation, a squad of musicians for performance, a thing distinguished only by freakiness. The stately Times disdainfully neglected to mention the concert in its critical column...
...Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski, a daughter; in Manhattan. Mr. Stokowski, famed Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra conductor, married (TIME, Jan. 25, 1926) Miss Evangeline Brewster Johnson, daughter of a founder of Johnson & Johnson, famed medicinal chemical firm. He has one daughter, Sonia, by his previous wife, Pianist Olga Samaroff, now New York Evening Post musical critic, from whom he was divorced...
...audience no longer. His right arm in a sling, he gritted his teeth, picked up the baton with his left, conducted the Kaminski "Concerto Grossi" single-and-left-handed. The pain was too great. He had to retire. The audience extended him an ovation. His former wife, Olga Samaroff, able music critic of the New York Evening Post, wrote: "Dr. Rodzinski could not replace Stokowski...
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...