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First in this season's series of concerts at Fogg Art Museum was given last night at 8 o'clock by the Stradivarius Quartet of New York. This first program was arranged as a tribute to the memory of the late Felix M. Warburg...
...memorial of Felix M. Warburg who died two weeks ago a concert will be given tonight in Fogg Museum at 8 o'clock by the Stradivarius Quartet. He gave money to the museum during his life, and the Stradivarius instruments of the Quartet were acquired by him for the players...
...Some of Warburg's favorite pieces have been selected among them the Brahms Quartet in C Minor and Beetheven's Quartet in E Flat Major, Opus...
...Moritz Warburg married Charlotte Oppenheim in Hamburg in the middle of the 19th Century. There were five sons. Felix, Paul, Max and Fritz grew up to be bankers, Aby became a famed art historian. Felix followed Paul to the U. S. and into Kuhn, Loeb & Co., stayed with the company after Paul left to help start the Federal Reserve System. But Felix was less interested in banking than in charity & world Jewry...
After the War the Joint Distribution Committee, with Felix Warburg as chairman, had been formed to relieve starving Jews in Central Europe. Out of the $80,000,000 spent. Felix Warburg gave $10,000,000. Then the Nazis seized the power in Germany and Felix Warburg threw all of the Committee's energies into the task of helping Jews move out of the reach of Adolf Hitler. While Felix helped thousands of Jews to leave. Max and Fritz remained, however, in Hamburg. Felix Warburg was no ardent political Zionist. He gave great sums to Jews in Palestine...