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Manhattan last week was prepared for a major musical event-the first U. S. visit of Ildebrando Pizzetti, famed Italian composer, and the premiere of his Rondo Veneziano to be played by Conductor Arturo Toscanini after a 13-weeks' absence from the Philharmonic-Symphony. Composer Pizzetti had been widely heralded, his coming sponsored by Conductor and Signora Toscanini, by Italian Ambassador Nobile Giacomo de Martino, Metropolitan Opera Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Mrs. Otto Hermann Kahn, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. His career had been extensively reviewed: Pizzetti is Parma-born, a musical critic, director of the Milan...
...despite all the advance notice there was nothing particularly momentous about Pizzetti's public reception last week. Toscanini blessed the Venetian Rondo with his full genius. It was clever, well-made picture music of pompous, aristocratic Venice and of Venice, roistering and plebeian. The audience applauded it cordially and Pizzetti, a little, worried-looking man, took bows from the stage. But on the same program Toscanini had placed Mozart's D Major Symphony. Wagner's Tannhauser overture and the skirling Bacchanale music, Borodin's Prince Igor dances. Because these things had greater substance, Toscanini attained with...
...more concerned with the development of music in the U. S. was a concert given in Manhattan the night after the Pizzetti-Toscanini celebration. This second concert was by the National High School Orchestra, an organization of 182 boys and girls trained by Joseph E. Maddy at the National High School Orchestra and Band Camp at Interlocken, Mich. Conductor Maddy, a professor of music at the University of Michigan, organized the School Orchestra in 1926, chose then 236 children from 30 states' to play at a music supervisors' conference. Out of this experiment developed the idea...
Yehudi Menuhin, 13-year-old California boy prodigy, gave a violin recital in Manhattan to a packed house. Although he had a sore throat, Prodigy Menuhin would not postpone the performance when he heard that Conductor Arturo Toscanini was in the audience. After the recital. Conductor Toscanini bussed Yehudi, promised to have him play a concerto with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony...
...prophecy alone did Critic Gushing confine his last week's chatter. In addition he had scrambled together a list of famed musicians' food fancies. It read: "Toscanini. Kraftbruhe mit Ei (consomme with raw egg). . . . Iturbi, caviar on apples . . . Horowitz, Russian cutlets . . . Stokowski, raw vegetables . . . Hutcheson, mushrooms (he grows and eats them) . . . Cortot, bread and gravy . . . Brailowsky, lump sugar . . . Professor Erskine, raw beef . . . the Leners of the Lener Quartet, orange ice . . . Melchior, green apples . . . Gabrilovitch, sardine oil . . . Gershwin, cereal and milk . . . Schumann-Heink, onions . . . Jeritza, cabbage." Most, if not all of this list is verifiable fact...