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Famed actors and vaudevillians frequently gather and perform for the financial sake of some sweet charity, but musicians are supposedly more serious, isolated folk who do not indulge in such mass gestures. Thus it was contrary to precedent last week when, before a Manhattan audience of some 3,000, Soprano...
Conductor Willem Mengelberg of the New York Philharmonic welcomed Iturbi on his return to Manhattan. He gave him a birthday party, had a many-layered cake fashioned to represent a skyscraper. Iturbi, hugely pleased, cut it with a swoop while Pianist Ernest Schelling looked on with greedy eye. Iturbi sneaked...
The program of tonight's concert, which is free and open to the public, follows: Quartet in G. Major, Op. 77, No. 1 Haydn Berceuse pour un Enfant Malade Schelling Gazal (Persian Melody) Schelling Quartet in C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1 Brahms
In Alexandria, Egypt, last week, a Czechoslovak composer opened his morning's mail, found a $1,000 check. Joseph Huttel had won the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Prize offered by the Library of Congress for a composition for piano and wind sextet. Contestants of 33 nationalities had submitted 135 scores...
Philharmonic faces predominate on the new board as they do in the band. Type faces on the new board: Harry Harkness Flagler, onetime patron of the Symphony, is president of the new Board of Directors; Walter Damrosch, onetime Symphony batonist, is "guest conductor" under the combine regime. Of the Philharmonic...