Word: violiniste
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Married. Maria Iturbi, 18, daughter of Jose Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor; and Stephen Hero, 20, concert violinist, Iturbi's protege; in Bedford Hills...
...ordinary and well worth hearing. Songs by Schubert, Grieg, Moussorgsky, Debussy, Sibelius, and Ravel are included in the imposing list which gives one every reason to believe that the superlatives which she earned in her New York reviews were more than justified. The other artist is Mischa Elman, noted violinist...
Died. Theodore August Metz, 87, violinist, minstrel, self-styled Father of the Jazz Era (see p. 30), composer of A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, which spurred Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War; in The Bronx...
...lured to the U. S. by a promise of a concert tour, only to have his manager fail him. Other men's misfortunes led to his swift rise as a conductor. The leader at the Capitol was taken suddenly ill one day; within a few hours the young violinist stepped into his place. Four years ago Arturo Toscanini was unable to keep an engagement in Philadelphia; young Eugene Ormandy had another unexpected chance. He acquitted himself so creditably that he was called to Minneapolis to pinch-hit for ailing Henri Verbrugghen. There he remained...
Victor Gottlieb had borrowed the cello from one S. N. Rosenthal, a Manhattan dealer who had offered to sell it for $4,000. Dealer Rosenthal had bought it for $600 from a violinist. The fiddler had paid $12 for it to a man who claimed to be a lawyer settling the affairs of a client. By the end of the week Elsa Hilger had redeemed her Guarnerius. Her claim was granted when she described a hasp on the case. She had tried to mend it with a nail when a screw dropped...