13 UUI. ~ THE MICHIGAN DAILY 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 7 I R r 1 r c t l i t 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 * t trs; INow Leading IVI (Continued from Page 1) 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 'Oh, you're a connoisseur! I'mN Music. V *" r* C l -I C -I for the 1937-38 Choral Union Concerts hi SEASON TICKETS (including $3.00 May Festival Cou- pon) may be ordered by mail, to be selected in sequence - $6.00, $8.00, $10.00 and $12.00 each. Address Charles A. Sink, President, School of Music, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. v Beginning Wednesday r October 27 IA;I; ORDER TICKETS BY MAI L E