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...Lind '29, will be the violin soloist of the evening, while Benjamin Brewster '27 will play the accordion and C. S. Henderson '28, will entertain as usual at the plane. K. A. Perry '28 will vocalize and Ogden Goolet '29 will perform in the specialty acts...
Leopold Auer, 81, unrivaled violin teacher: "Like my friend, Pianist Hofmann, I have just become a U. S. citizen. By birth Hungarian, I became in 1883 a Russian subject, in 1895 hereditary Russian nobleman, and in 1903 Russian State Councilor. As soloist to the Tsar, I succeeded the great composer-violinist Wieniaw-ski, but my chief pride is that my pupils have included Elman, Zimbalist, Heifetz. I have lived in the U. S. since 1918, following the Russian Revolution...
...second pair of concerts the New York Philharmonic gave the first U. S. performance of George Templeton Strong's* Vie d'Artiste, a symphonic poem for violin and orchestra. Josef Szigeti was the soloist, drew ripe measure of grave, cool beauty to paint the mood of a creator, peaceful as a flower at first, but bruised and beaten by a mocking Success back into a wiser contentment. Critics found it pleasant, a little sentimental. They commended Conductor Willem Mengelberg for introducing it, and for giving Bloch's Israel Symphony, that strong, honest portrayal of the suffering...
...open its season in Philadelphia on Oct. 13, give its first Manhattan concert on Oct. 14. Mr. Mengelberg's novelties will include Howard Hanson's Pan and the Priest, a tone poem for violin and orchestra by Templeton Strong, U. S. composer living in Geneva (Josef Szigeti, soloist); the first performance of Scriabin's piano concerto (Gitta Gradova, soloist); a fantasy by Darius Milhaud for piano and orchestra; Szymanowski's Third Symphony; J. C. Bach's Sinfonia; Bloch's Israel, Honegger's Tempest overture; Pfitzner's three preludes from Palestrina...
...upon whom Barry Benefield laid strong hold last autumn with his little-heralded* novel, The Chicken-Wagon Family, will be glad for the introduction to this volume, written by that primate of short-story critics, Mr. Edward J. O'Brien. It is like hearing that your favorite choir soloist has been engaged by the Metropolitan Opera. Says Mr. O'Brien, who reads bales of fiction per annum in professional detachment: "I suppose that those who are dumb have never had their feelings and experience interpreted so clearly before as ... by Barry Benefield." He gives thanks that these "short...