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tokowski Once
Lost Ace Trumpet
Player To Big Cop
There is a story told of a Stokowski
performance of Beethoven's "Leonore
No. 3 Overture,' 'in which the dra-
matic climax is reached with the ar-
rival of the doomed Florestan's rescue'
party .
At this particular performance all
was in readiness; the trumpeter went
back" stage, the orchestra passed
through the opening Adagio and
rushed precipitately on to the climax.
After a frantic wait, in which Flor-
estan might well have perished for
want of expected aid, Mr. Stokowski
despairingly signaled the orchestra,
to proceed, trumpetless, and for " nce
the overture was concluded wit hout
its happy ending.
Rushing back stage as soon as the
number was over, the wrathful con-
ductor found his trumpet player,
somewhat damaged, dangling in the
grasp of a big, burly Irish cop, who
had been detailed to keep out im-
posters. "Here y'are, Mr. Shtokow-4
shky," grunted the indignant de-1
fender of art as well as life and prop-
erty. "Here's the guy what was agoin'
ter break up yer show."
RACHMANINOFF'S PROGRAM
Prelude after J. Bach ......Liszt
"Weeping, Plaints, Sorrows,
Fears'"
Italian Concerto ........J. Bach
Allegro moderato
Andante
Presto
FTantasie
Two Impromptus:
F-sharp Major Chopin
A-flat Major
Mazurka
Scherzo
Intermission
Suite Bergamasque .....Debussy
Prelude
Menuet
Clair de lune
Passepied
Etude in E-flat
Minor .......... Rachmaninoff
Voices of the Woods .......Liszt
Dance of the Gnomes ......Liszt
Choral Union Had Start With Church
HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CHORUS-- " .. . They contribute their service
Spring of 1935 the chorus made an extensive tour of Europe, giving concer
Switzerland, Hungary and Italy ... When the question of making a con
in 1938 was projected, foremost men of Finland willingly volunteered to sl
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Kreisler Arrested For Attempting
To Sell Own Violin To Dealer
Many and strange are the adven- not rich enough to pay you what this
tures that befall concert artists as violin is worth. In my whole outfit
they travel over the globe-but it isn't I haven't an instrument good enough
often that one is arrested as a thief, to show you. But if you'll wait two
as Fritz Kreisler once was in Antwerp. minutes-I'll have to dash home-I'll
"One day I had to pass through bring you an Amati which will cer-
the city on my tour," Kreisler re- tainly interest you.'
lates, "and had an hour to while away "I agreed, and immediately he was
until the ship which was to take me off. A few minutes passed and then
to Harwich left. I followed my usual the man was back. Not alone, how-
habit-when I have some extra time ever-but accompanied by a police-
-of browsing around in some antique man.
shops. In one of these, mixed up "'This man is a thief,' he cried.
with all sorts of rubbish, I found a 'He offered me for sale a violin which
violin better than anything there. I belongs to Fritz Kreisler!'
asked the price. It wasn't too high. "I had the greatest amount of
Then on my own score, I spoke to trouble to persuade the ola fellow
the dealer, an old Jew, who looked that I was Kreisler myself," the vir-
as if he had stepped out of a picture tuoso concludes, and explains that
of Rembrandt. he had to play a piece which the old
"After the sale I told him I had fellow had on his phonograph to es-
a violin too, and asked what he would tablish his own identity.
give me for it.
"Then I unpacked my concert vio- ANNOUNCE CAR !LON CONCERTS
lin, which. I was carrying. The old Carillon recitals will be given from
fellow scrutinized the instrument for 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. every Sunday for
a moment and then cried enthusias- the rest of the year, it was an-
tically: nounced yesterday by the School of
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and evening concert. The ticket sale
from other towns was so great that
special trains were arranged to bring
in concert-goers for the Saturday
concerts. The ticket sale proved far
beyond the management's expecta-
tions, and they not only sold all
available standing room in University
Hall Auditorium, but in the halls and
I adjoining rooms as well. The un-
expected crowd of music lovers, how-,}
s without compensation .. . In the ever, had other difficulties than those
its in Sweden, Germany, Austria, in the auditorium. There were no
cert tour in the United States early restaurants or grocery stores in the
ponsor the tour ... " neighborhood of State Street, and
when the afternoon concert was over,
the concert-goers were greeted by a
Noted Musicologist downpour of rain and a dearth of
THc food . The hardier (or hungrier) ones
'o Talk Here Oct. 7 trekked down to Main Street and
jammed the few small eating places
Dr. Edward J. Dent, professor of and bought out the grocery stores, but
music at Cambridge University, a dis-- there were many others who heard
tinguished authority in the field of the evening concert on an empty
musicology, will deliver a lecture be-!stomach.
fore the members of the School of However, food shortage was not the RUTH SLENCZYINSKI
Music and the general public inter- only minor catastrophe of the week-
ested in music, at 4:15 p.m. Oct. 7, in end, for the storm continued after the predecessor of the great four-day
Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. the evening concert, and there were festival now held in Hill Auditorium.
Dr. Dent, whose subject will be only a few cabs to take the visitors For the next 10 years the Boston
"The History of the Fugue," is vis- back to the railroad station. Once Festival Orchestra returned, under
iting a number of American Univer- down at the station, an even worse the baton of Emil Mollenauer. The
sities on a brief trip to America. He situation confronted them, for Chicago Symphony Orchestra, under
is a distinguished scholar, has writ- through some. misunderstanding, the Frederick Stock, appeared at the May
ten extensively on music subjects and special trains had been sent to Detroit Festival for 31 years, until 1996 when
is considered an authority in his after depositing the music-ldvers, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, with its
field. it was past midnight when the hun- complement of 100 players, was en-
dreds waiting in and around the sta- gaged. This orchestra also partici-
tion were finally rescued. pated in the Festival of 1937, and has
Read Daily Classified Ads Even with its first little difficulties, been re-engaged for the Festival of
the Festival was a success, and was 1938 under the baton of Eugene Or-
ustcal society
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