Word: sembrich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia), endowed by Mary Louise Curtis Bok, wife of Publisher Edward William Bok, daughter of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, boasts as imposing a staff as money can buy. Josef Casimir Hofmann is its director and heads the piano department. Marcella Sembrich is in charge of voice; Felix Salmond, 'cello; Louis Bailly, viola and chamber music; Carlos Salzedo, harp; Arthur Rodzinski. orchestra; Reginald O. Morris, theory and composition. Last week were added to the list Violinists Leopold Auer, now 82 years old, and Efrem Zimbalist, one of his many famed pupils, and Edward Bachman. Karl...
...University and conductor of the New York Oratorio Society-an organization which may in time come to play as important a part in the musical life of the community as the orchestra of the Paris Conservatoire; there will be three concerts this winter with soloists chosen by Madame Marcella Sembrich from the best vocal students. Leopold Auer, famed violinist and teacher of such musicians as Jascha Heifetz, and Efrem Zimbalist, will select three of the most able violinists in the Graduate School and train them himself. An appropriation has been made for publishing worthy works by U. S. composers...
...assure its existence for the next three years Henri Verbrugghen will conduct the 16 concerts at home, the same series in St. Paul, will lead on Nov. 4 the identical program given 25 years before with Soprano Dusolina Giannini, the soloist, instead of her teacher, Marcella Sembrich...
...Orchestra, so Mrs. Bok made her Institute of Music in three years' time into one of the few wonders of the music world. Money is much, but far from all in that world. At a music institute the teaching staff is all-important. To hers Mrs. Bok attracted Mme. Sembrich, Emilio de Gogorza, Carl Flesch, Moritz Rosenthal and many another. A program comes next. The Bok administration provides needy students not only with instruments and instruction, but with living expenses and funds for their debut concerts as well...
...Chopin, Liszt and Rimsky-Korsakov were first famed as nine-year-olds. Mendelssohn, Schubert, Stravinsky and Boomfield-Zeisler waited until they were 10 before startling the music world; Beethoven, Saint-Saens and Florence Easton, until they were 11. Tetrazzini trilled at 12. Jenny Lind, Pietro Mascagni, Percy Grainger, Marcella Sembrich were obscure until...