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Last week in Manhattan the Schubert Memorial gave its first concert, presented Violinist Sadah Shuchari, 20 (onetime Sadie Schwartz) and Pianist Muriel Kerr, 17, both pupils of the Juilliard Foundation. External circumstances favored them. They had 80 members of the Philharmonic-Symphony to play with, Willem Mengelberg to conduct, Prof. John Erskine (also of the Juilliard school) to introduce them. They had many and important listeners, including leading critics. They had marked talent, both of them-but for Brahms' violin concerto, for Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto it was not enough. Nor did the leading critics appear...
...happy choice of Conductor Willem Mengelberg's. Beethoven's Overture to Coriolanus opens on a unison C: C stands for Combine. What more appropriate, then, than that the mighty C of the Overture should commence the first program of the combined New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society? By accident or design, Conductor Mengelberg drew a pretty symbol from symphony music, that veritable library of symbols. Some 24 musicians new to the Philharmonic have been placed under Mengelberg's guiding hand as a result of the merger last spring of the New York Philharmonic and the New York Symphony...
Manhattan thinks well of Willem Mengelberg. In Holland, where he is conductor of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, he is a great man, travels on a diplomatic passport, is the pet ambassador of goodwill. With the Philharmonic he has established himself as a careful, conscientious leader with a fine flair for effects and fire enough to achieve them. His Wagner is weak as are most of his operatic undertakings but his classics, especially the German, are excellent, his Strauss supreme. He ranks high with the world's great conductors; not so high, however, as to be included in the lobby debates...
...trees, towering above the low, squat Summer Palace, seemed to rustle discreet congratulations to a Queen now almost as venerable and quite as upstanding as they. How much the royal trees have looked upon, and how much she. . . . Princess Emma. Sixty-two was the age of dissolute King Willem III of the Netherlands, justly famed as "The Dutch Don Juan," when in 1879 he married Princess Emma of Waldeck-Pyrmont, who was then...
Dutch courtiers know a story of how the little Princess made herself Queen of the Netherlands by a single bold stroke. Senile King Willem had been paying court to her elder sister, Princess Helen, who tactfully refused him on account of his age and reputation. At this crucial moment young blooming Princess Emma is said to have entered the room, exclaiming reproachfully, "Oh Helen, / should never refuse to be a queen!" To counteract the sensation produced by this generally believed tale, Princess Emma's mother herself arranged to convey a subsequently made proposal of marriage from King Willem...