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...Manhattan, the Philharmonic last week began a twelfth season under the patronage of Adolph Lewisohn. Willem van Hoogstraten, winter conductor for Portland, Ore., is, for the eighth successive summer, conductor and cynosure at the nightly concerts in Lewisohn Stadium. Last week he had just returned from mountain climbing in Mittenwald, Bavaria (famed for violins), with his daughter Eleonor, eleven. Eleonor goes to school in Switzerland, prefers sailing on her father's 20-ft. sloop. Last week she went to Chicago to visit her divorced mother, Pianist Elly Ney.* Mr. van Hoogstraten's hobby is sailing; his horror, fishing...
...begins the famed summer season at rustic Ravinia Park, near Chicago, with Impresario Louis Eckstein giving a classical repertoire with Metropolitan Opera stars until Labor Day. July. The twelfth season of outdoor concerts at Lewisohn Stadium, The Bronx, N. Y., starts July 5, lasting until August 30 under Conductors Willem van Hoogstraten and Albert Coates. On the Pacific Coast, "music under the stars" will be heard in the Hollywood Bowl under the batons of Directors Bernardino Molinari and Eugene Goossens. In Europe, London's Covent Garden opera season is now under way. It lasts until June 28. Two "Ring...
With tremendous, white-hot roar a small meteorite recently rushed from the skies and smashed into southwest Africa. Last week Harvard's Dutch-born Astronomer Willem Jacob Luyten examined the sky-piece and found it the biggest thing of its kind yet observed by Science. It measures 10 by 10 by 14 feet and weighs between 50 and 75 tons. Hence it is bigger than the record 36½ ton meteorite found on the edge of Greenland by the late Polar Explorer Robert Peary and given to the American Museum of Natural History...
Concerts by Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony have been dull this season. Conductor Willem Mengelberg seemed sleepy. The aging Walter Damrosch was uninspired. Then, because Sir Thomas Beecham was unable to come, because Toscanini was late, there followed a string of substitute conductors - Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Fritz Reiner, Arthur Honegger, Hans Lange, Bernardino Molinari. The results were adequate but not memorable. Yet the houses were sold-out. Subscribers had bought in advance for the entire season so that they should by no sorry slip miss Toscanini...
...prove their point for them, there appeared again in Manhattan Vladimir Horowitz, 25-year-old Russian pianist who made his U. S. debut last winter. He played next day after the Schubert Memorial's concert, in the same hall with the same Philharmonic players and Conductor Willem Mengelberg. He played ambitiously, Brahms' great B flat Concerto-and in a manner so restrained and yet so immensely moving that critics who had hitherto accused him of superficial interpretation and claptrap effect, revamped their verdict. Widely-advertised Horowitz with the European reputation had made big music. He, apparently unconcerned, took...