Word: sergei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sergei Eisenstein, famed Russian cinema director, signed a contract with Paramount for $3,000 a week. Last week, from Manhattan, famed Sergei Eisenstein sailed back to Russia. It is customary for alien cinema artisans who have failed in Hollywood to speak bitterly of their sojourn there. Sergei Eisenstein...
Variety, theatrical tradesheet, last week prophesied an end to fee inflation, printed the prices asked by some 50 artists: Soprano Amelita Galli-Curci, $4,500; Violinist Fritz Kreisler, $4,500; Tenor John McCormack, $4,000; Soprano Rosa Ponselle, $3,500; Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, $3,000. . . . Such lists are misleading. Galli-Curci may ask for $4,500 but she seldom gets it now. Many people prefer to hear Lily Pons, the pretty French coloratura who is a novelty and only a little more than half Galli-Curci's age. Kreisler makes $4,500 on many a concert but he makes...
Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky and his sedate band lavished almost too much care on the hard, staccato beginnings of the rhapsody, the smart, shifting jazz rhythms which followed. People were enthusiastic about the smooth, melodic middle theme which the Koussevitzky strings played superbly but Bostonians never really accept any new music without consulting one of two critical oracles, aged Philip Hale of the Boston Herald or H. T. ("Hell-to-Pay") Parker of the Transcript. Gnomelike Critic Parker thought "this Second Rhapsody seemed tempered and in degree de-natured by reflection and manipulation. It sounded over-often from the study-table...
...From news headlines casual readers might have thought last week that Soprano Maria Jeritza, Violinist Fritz Kreisler and Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff had contracted for a radio series with National Broadcasting Co. But these artists have only become affiliated with N. B. C.'s Artists Service, an agency like any other which books flesh & blood concerts. Kreisler and Rachmaninoff are two of the three great artists who have steadfastly refused to broadcast. The third: Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski...
Meanwhile, sailing for Europe was Fabien Sevitzky, nephew of Boston's Sergei Koussevitzky who dropped the first four letters of his name some years ago so that his career would not be just a pale reflection of his illustrious uncle's. Sevitzky, like Koussevitzky, is a double-bass virtuoso; like his uncle exceedingly handsome, well-groomed. After fleeing from Russia in Revolution time, tramping through dense woods in stormy weather, carrying the double bass which was a gift from his uncle, Sevitzky came to the U. S., joined the Philadelphia Orchestra. For the past six years...