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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harpsichords. In Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium one night last week swart Pianist-Conductor Jose Iturbi turned on a little-known facet of his exuberant talent. A harpsichordist for 26 years who has studied with the most publicized exponent of that ancient instrument, Mme Wanda Landowska, he tinkled bravely through a Haydn concerto, conducting the orchestra on the side as all performers did in the harpsichord's heyday, the first half of the 18th Century...
...When Nijinsky, Karsavina, Rubinstein danced in the peerless Diaghilev Ballet, it was more often than not to works created by Michel Fokine. Today Fokine runs a dancing school in Manhattan. His dancers, who bolstered a faltering season last summer at the Lewisohn Stadium, were again sent to its rescue this month. They performed old Fokine favorites, introduced some new ballets. By this week, when they were to wind up the engagement, the Fokine dancers had impressed critics as no more than mediocre. There was, however, one exception-22-year-old Paul Haakon (pronounced hawk-on). In Scheherazade...
...down and breathe hard in a fierce family squabble over the issue of whether Republican incumbents or Democratic hopefuls should administer 133 sq. mi. of remote tropic islands containing a population, mostly Negro, barely large enough to fill two thirds of the University of West Virginia's football stadium...
...unlikely. For him to lose in both was almost unthinkable. For him to lose in both to the same man was entirely out of the question. At Lincoln, Neb. last week, the 15,000 spectators at the national championship meet of the Amateur Athletic Union walked out of the stadium rubbing their eyes, for that was precisely what had happened. Entered in four events, Owens had withdrawn from the 200-metre dash and 200-metre low hurdles to give all his attention to the 100-metre dash and the broad jump. A 20-year-old Negro sophomore of Temple University...
...Manhattan, sturdy little Jose Iturbi. by now accepted as a first-class conductor as well as a brilliant pianist, mounted a podium in the floodlighted Lewisohn Stadium, led the Philharmonic-Symphony expertly through the Star-Spangled Banner, Wagner's rousing overture to Die Meistersinger, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, three dances from De Falla's Three-Cornered Hat and, with Violinist Albert Spalding, the Mendelssohn Concerto. As usual, aged Adolph Lewisohn, donor of the Stadium and a patron of the concerts, made a little speech. So did peppery, music-loving Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. Hooted and booed by radicals...