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Married. Efrem Zimbalist, 54, Russian-born violinist; and Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, 66, widow of famed Editor Edward William Bok, daughter and heiress of the late Philadelphia Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis ; in Rockport, Me. Director since 1941 of the Curtis Institute of Music, which she established, Zimbalist was the second husband of the late Soprano Alma Gluck...
Fritz Kreisler, 68, became a U.S. citizen. The Vienna-born violinist had described himself to Immigration authorities as a French citizen; after the Nazi coup in Austria he had gone to France, won honorary citizenship there...
Died. Albert Stoessel, 48, violinist, conductor, composer; of a heart attack while conducting; in Manhattan. He was also a distinguished teacher, in 1921 succeeded Walter Damrosch as maestro of New York's Oratorio Society, wrote an American opera (Garrick), was a guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony...
Honorable mention, however, should be made in the case of some transcriptions which were made with better discrimination and taste. The Bach Chaconne in D Minor as originally written, stands as one of the bulwarks in any competent violinist's repertoire. As it stands today, it is also established in any competent pianist's repertoire, for the transcription by Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni is second to none in transferring the mood and music accurately to the piano. The Brahms-Haydn Variations, written originally for two pianos, and Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition," originally written for piano, have also profited...
...Back from a month's concert tour of England was Violinist Yehudi Menuhin with a different report. The entertainment at the camps there, he said, was too "light and trivial . . . the soldiers need inspiration, need more than a joke"-serious music...