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MISCHA ELMAN \Vednesday Evening, March 25, 1942

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.3 AMERICAN PIIOTOGRAPIIY A r TilE BROOKLYN MUSEUM

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4 The New President

ADRIAN VAN SINDEREN ASSUMES OFFICE AS INSTITUTE 'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE

F OLLOWING IllS ELECTION AT !"IlL LAS! J\IEET- Yale in 1()10, he served in the last \XIar with the ing of the Board of Trustees, held on January 8, Adrian Van Sinderen assumes the presidency rank of Major and was decorated with the Dis of the In stitute as of March, 1942. I Ie becomes tinguishecl Service Cross by the Navy in 1918. the fifteenth in a continuous line of chief execu­ tives since 1823, when Robert Snow was elected !·or the past twenty-seven years, Mr Van to head the old Apprentices' Library. Sinderen has been a member of the firm of Mr. Van Sinderen's active association with \XI. A. and A. M. White Company, 40 Wall the Institute goes back to 1921 In January of Street, .i\1anhattan. I Ie is also Vice-President that year he was elected a Life Member, and a of the Brooklyn Savings Bank and a Director of month later he was elected to the Board of several important business corporations, includ Trustees. He was named Chairman of the ing the Brooklyn Trust Company and the Ne\\ Finance Committee in 1924, a post which he York Telephone Company. Mr. Van Sinderen held until last year. In 1925, he was elected is, as well, nationally prominent for his show Third Vice-President of the Institute, and six horses, \\ hich are bred and trained at his farm years later, Second Vice President. in Connecticut. I Ie is President of the American Parallel to his years of service to the Institute llorse Shows Association and Director of the I Mr. Van Sinderen was President of the Brooklyn National I Iorse Show of America. Academy of Music, from 1921 to 1936. In the Mr. Van Sinderen has always evinced great latter year, the Academy of Music ceased its interest in the work of local institutions, particu separate existence to become part of the Brook­ lady those whose purpose is educational or lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Mr. Van whose activities are concerned with public health Sinderen has also been closely associated with and welfare. I Ie is President of the Brooklyn the affairs of the Institute's Department of Edu­ I Iospital, and serves as a Director in the follo\\ cation, which operates its annual program in the ing organizations· the Brooklyn Bureau of Academy of Music. I Ie has sen eel on the Charities, the United I lospital Fund, the Brook Governing Committee of this Department for lyn Chapter of the American Red Cross, the approximately twenty years, and was appointed Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, its Chairman towards the close of last season. the Park Association of City, and the The position of chief administrator of the Visiting Nurses Association. In 1932, he was Institute-which embraces the Museums, Botanic awarded the Gold Medal of the Brooklyn Down Garden, and Department of Education-is one town Association in recognition of his distin of great trust and responsibility. t-vtr. Van guished services to the civic, cultural, and phil Sinderen assumes this office not only with years anthropic needs of the community. of experience in the affairs of the Institute, hut The Institute is fortunate in having as its new with a background which 1s Interwoven with the Pres1dent one who, in addition to his strong entire community life of the Borough I Ie was 5ense of ci\IC responsibility, has been through born in 1887, of an old Brooklyn fan11ly, and out hts ld·c an active and discriminating patron has always made his home here. A graduate of of the arts, literature, and music.

5 MISCHA ELMAN'S THIRTY YEARS

than thirty years. Wherever playing is valued, people have flocked to hear him. Yet in all the years he has been performing, he was late to but one concert. That was his first, when he was a student at the Imperial Academy and only ten years old. The prize pupil, on that occasion, was to play for a select audience. The patrons arrived, the tuned up, hut the prize pupil still did not appear. Panic-stricken, the director made a systematic search of the building only to discover the young artist locked in a room on the top floor. Obliv­ ious to time or place, he was busily practicing an etude. The director, not stopping for an ' explanatiOn, hustled the boy onto the stage, and the latter earned himself thunderous applause for hi s performance of the Wieniawski Con­ certo. Later, it was found that jealous class­ mates, after taunting Elman, had chased him into the room and then locked him in. A few years later, Elman first attracted the attention of . He was awarded a scholarship at the St. Petersburg Academy of AI Till: TURN 01 TilL CI.NIUHY 1111 ~Olllll Music, coming under the guiding hand of that of had a monopoly on musical prodi­ remarkable teacher. By 1904 Auer had pre­ gl(~s--so at least it seemed to the American pared the youth for his first major test abroad public. Budding pianists, apparently, were dis­ -a debut in . The provincial Russian patched to Vienna for study with Leschetizky, took that citadel of music by storm. After while the parents of promising violinists hurried dazzling audiences throughout Europe with his their offspring to St. Petersburg. But only the fortunate few were accepted by the celebrated technical virtuosity and captivating them with Leopold Auer, who had developed a distinctive the warmth of his interpretations, he came to school of violin playing. It is a tribute to his the new world. The sixteen-year-old veteran ge nius as a teacher that his three most famous first appeared before the New York public with pupils, though unmistakably hearing the impress the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in 1908. New of his training, have still retained their separate York at once took him to its heart. Critics vied personalities. with each other in finding adequate superlatives Zimbalist remains the classicist, the dignified to express their delight in the young virtuoso. technician who disdains undue display of feeling. A nation-wide tour was equally successful and I feifetz maintains a nice balance between tech­ Elman resolved to make America his home. He nical skill and interpretation without exagger­ became a citizen as soon as he reached his ating the one or heightening the other. But for majority. warmth and color and sentiment it is to Mischa Elman has been on extended tours ever since. r:lman that one looks. Without any sacrifice of As a leading virtuoso, famed for " the Elman the technical brilliance that first excited interest tone," he has faced the audiences of six conti­ in the "wonder-child," Uman makes his instru­ nents. I [e was the first violinist to perform in ment, and indeed hi s audiences, respond to his the Far East. In scrutable Orientals proved as every emotion Elman will close the Major demonstrative as children, welcoming him with Concert Series when he performs ;-~t the Institute an avalanche of flowers and applause. Elman on Wednesday evening, March 25. recently added South America to his tours, Mischa Elman has been an institution for more where he met with a parallel success. 6 MAJOR CONCERT SERIES FOR THE SEASON 1942 - 1943 TUESDAY EVENINGS AT 8:30

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7 HTHE SEASONS," BY

Tile BHoOKI Y\o ~Y,\\PIIO.'\Y OIH "'"'H' IIHI:-.:v, to a close its initial ~cason on \X'ednesday evening1 March 18. fhe ) ear has been one of outstanding success for this newcomer among professional symphony . Its virtu osit\ and technical proficiency h;we heen amply ( ..ul illustrated in the performance of works as B.1rnlw1 ~~·1 sharply contrasting, in technique if not in sp1rit, as Beethoven's "Eroica'' and Bloch's "America" The final concert will be de\otcd to Joseph llaydn's oratorio1 ''The Seasons." Three rank­

ing soloists1 I Iarriet !lenders, Alois Poranski, and Edward Kane, will join the Brooklyn lnsti

tute Chorus and the New Choral Croup of I he male roles-Simon, the farmer1 and 1\bnhattan in this production. I .ucas1 a young countryman-will be taken by It is to Carl Bam berger, who has heen un­ Alois Poranski and edward Kane respectively tiring in training the choruses, that the fruition Poranski has simultaneously pursued the dispa of this venture is largely clue Bamberger, one rate careers of mechanical engineer and basso of the three regular leaders of the orchestra, with mutual felicity. Both Poranski and Edward \viii conduct the performance. Already known Kane are known to opera lovers through their tu members of the Institute for his spirited direc radio broadcasts as well as stage performances. tion of "I lanse! and Gretel," he has appeared With so 1mpressive an array, "The Seasons" as guest conductor with many musical organiza­ promises to be a worthy climax to a notable tions, including the ew York Philharmonic­ series. It was in this oratorio that I Iaydn made Symphony Orchestra at the Lewisohn Stadium his last sustained effort at composition. Adapted and the Bach Circle of New York. Numerous from James Thomson's best-selling poem of the operatic programs have been given over the century1 it belongs completely to the idiom of radio under his direction its day. To Thomson's philosophic contempla­

rhe soprano solo in "The Seasons" will be tion of nature1 I laydn added the classic sym­ sung by I larriet I lenders. This young Americ,ln metry of his style and the humor and sentiment made an effecti\e debut in ew York last winter of his rich personality. Although the freshness 'ia Califorllla and SC\ en crowded years in of "The Sea ons" shows no sign of a declining Europe She has sung leading roles in more vigor, it was written when Haydn was sixty­ than fifty productions at such operatic centers seven years old, an age when the hardiest have as Vienna and Prague In 1937 foscanini in­ retreated to the most minor of compositions \ited her to sing 1\larzelline in the 'Tidelio" he I Iadyn himself admitted that it gave him " the was to conduct at Salzburg. finishing stroJ..e."

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THE INSTITUTE AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC Wednesday Evening, March 25, at 8:30 o'clock in the Opera House

MISCHA ELMAN

VIOLIC\ IS I

Leopold Mittman at the piano

FINAL PROGRAM IN THE Major Concert Series

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11 TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION lNSTTTtlTE I F\Tl IRES FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH

Indomitable China Atrica W her<' Centul'i<'s M eet Never ha,·e '' e been more gravely concerned Count Byron de Prorok has hc:1dcd cxpedi "ith the future of Asia . Today we are fight · tions to the lost civi li zations of three conti 1ng beside a great Asiatic people to destroy the nents The noted archeologist and author of menace of world fascism !·or us this battle­ /)cacl :lle11 Do 'Tell Tales, recently ~pent three front is still new, but China has long been \ears in Africa. lie dug and delved in those struggling to build a new world in which its parts of the country where the titanic struggle fn:edom can survive. A T. !lull, Jr., ace for empire is now going on, where the Axis photographer and far [astern editor of Pathe battles Britain for the control of that vital life ews, brings to the Institute his film, "f.ree line-the Suez Canal China," on Monday evening, March 16. I !ere By plane, camel caravan, and truck, Count is the documentary evidence of the last three de Prorok pushed his way through the war. lie ) cars of Chinese resistance to the invading ar­ 1eachecl the "dead" cities of an tiquity in Liby:1, mies of japan. Mr. I lull penetrated every cor­ and he visited those strategic cities of today, ncr of that war, covering the varied aspects of heroic Tobruk and Sidi Barrani at the gateway the military and economic conflict on both to Egypt. In the biblical land of Ophir he fronts. I lis is not merely the story of death, interviewed I !aile Selassie and discovered the destruction, and plague. It is the story, too, of tomb of princess Anutis, who lived and ruled reconstruction, of China's epic mass march to th1rt) -s1x centuries ago. I Ie spoke to the new the interior, where by sheer manpower and young Lawrenccs of Arabia, to Wavell and to will, whole industries were moved to carry on the French leaders who have now fallen from the fight. grace or died in battle. "The African Drama," which Count de Prorok will show on Monday Waterfalls and Jungles evening, March 23, unfolds a story of our times Gloria Hollister began her career as a scien­ against the background of distant centuries. ti st and subsurface walker at the age of ten when accommodating playmates lowered her to Adventure in the Pacific the bottom of the ri\'er near her home in Suf­ Even the daring members of the French fern. This drastic investigation somehow led Foreign Legion feared the t-.lois, wild people her to assist Dr. Alexis Carrel as laboratory of Dalat, rrcnch Indo China. The latter use a technician above sea level, and Dr. \'V'illiam crossbow and shoot their poisoned arrows with Heebe as research worker below sea level. It deadly accmacy. Like the mysterious poisons also led her to become a distinguished e:-.. plorer of detective stories, theirs has no known anti­ and scientist in her own right. Last spring Miss dote, for the strongest die from its effects with· llollister headed the ew York Zoological So­ in fifteen minutes. Patrick Smith, veteran of .. ciety's expedition into the jungles of British the British Army and three years in the trenches Clllana. From her base at the brink of the of France, entered their land with considerable Kaieteur Falls, she obtained photographs and trepidation. I Ie spent six months in the Far motion pictures of the exotic flowers and strange East filming the Mois and other strange peo­ animals of the trop:cs. Some of these animals ple never before presented to the public. "Bali, she brought back alive-the guachario, or oil Java, and Angkor-Wat," a travelogue in natural hird, and the canje pheasant, only surviving link color, which l\1r Smith presents on Mondav between a bird and a reptile. Air films re· evening, 'v\arch 30, offers a timely picture of ,·ealcd more than forty waterfalls in the im the daily life and complex forces at work in penetrable jungles. On 1\\onday evening, those once remote lands. Celebes, Borneo, >\1arch 0, J\1iss llollister will exhibit the fas Sumatra, were only names in a geography text . tinating record of her journey in "British Today they are the military frontiers of r~11ian:1, the Land of Giant Waterfalls." America. 12 I

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Romance' andante non troppo finale a Ia Z ingara

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) Our Sneee ss S uit f or s mart women! Rayon sheer ensemble that takes you to all the n1ce places where you want to look beautifully turned out! Navy, black, Veronica Mimoso grey and blue. S1zes 161 'z to 24Yz, 38 to ANFPOCI 1 HILL OF DIVERSITY AND coLon 1s 44. Better Dresses­ treated in the last of the concerts for young Second Floor. people on Saturday afternoon, March 14 "From Romantic Music to the Present" covers 19.95 many phases of a movement which had reper cussions in all the arts. With the end of classi­ cism the ideal of the unity of form and content, of Reason as a guide to life, shattered into a variety of national and personal cults. The nineteenth century was imbued with an over powering sense of the uniqueness of individual ~ti/J~~ experience. Emotion, and toward the end of -~~ vr WITH A VISIT Ttl mE-7 the century, mood, lights, and shadows were emphasized Musicians had their counterpart [[TIL{~IJ£[1 [;J ®®~ in painters like Monet, Renoir, and Whistler. Debussy was the great transition flgure who c..--> tHole£~ hridged the gap between romanticism and im pressionism and pointed the way to contempo rary music. The French and Russian schools of music will GRANADAASHLAND PLA[E AND LAFAYETTE AVE. he amply represented on the program to illus ·~ deH~ u/:IJIIIPHilnPH BhDtlibtH" trate this change that came over music. The concert will close with contemporary works from many lands. As before, a community sing DIAMOND will be one of the features of the afternoon. and Precious jeweled Gerald Warburg again acts as master of cere Rings, Bracelets, Clips monies, conducting the ­ and Watches, priced with Symphony Chamber Orchestra and commentmg good old-fashioned mod- on the program. eration An added attraction will be Veronica Mimoso as guest pianist. Veronica, though only fifteen, . ti · ~ ·' .. ·L~WK . OWITZ has had eleven years of public experience on S~Hd for Gift the concert platform and over the radio. One Brocl111re On Grand Street for HMf a Century of Harold Bauet 's most gifted pupils, she made her formal debut last summer with the Ne" 288 GRAND ST., NEW YORK York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. 24 Music Notes S tuyvesant String Quartet The Stuyvesant String Quartet, organized a few seasons ago by leading players in Tosca­ ni ni's NBC Orchestra, is now widely known for it s virtuosity and extensive repertory. Critics have been warm in their praise of the group's excellent workmanship and emotional convic­ tion, particularly in the presentation of con­ temporary work. Its personnel is made up of

Sylvan Shulman, first violin·I Maurice Wilk I second violin; Emanuel Vardi, viola; and , '. On Sunday afternoon, March 22, the quartet will appear at the Institute in a program of Beethoven, Mozart, and the con­ temporary Russian, Shostakovich.

Br·ooklyn Chamber Music Society The Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, under the direction of Carll I. Tollefsen, offers another of its carefully arranged and skilfully executed programs on Friday evening, March 27. J\lem hers of the group, prominent in musical activi ~ ties for a generation, will open the concert with Dvorak's passionate and melancholy "Dumky," for Strings and Piano. Following, will be Men­ delssohn's String Quartet, Op. 12 and the G minor Quartet for Strings and Piano by Mozart. Participating artists are Augusta Tollefsen, Carl Now's the time, I I. Tollefsen, Willem Durieux, William I Ianley, and Nico Van Vendeloo. The guest artist is Emily Roosevelt, American soprano, who has not1943- appeared in concert both in J::urope and the to select that fine violin at WURLITZER'S United States. She has sung with the New York where genuine old instruments can be had Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, and with from $75 up to $45,000. Among importations this last summer ate other major orchestras and oratorio societies an ANTONIO STRADIVARI of 1690. as Young A rtist low as $1 0,000, AND ONE OF 17 34 FOR ONLY $12,500; both superlative in tone; I larry Braun, violinist, performs before lnstt ­ one of 1679, a grand tnstrument, superb tute members on Sunday afternoon, March 8, in tone, modest price, AND AN OMOBONO the final recital of the Young Artists Series. Mr. STRADIVARI, $3,500. Braun has been warmly received by an increas­ Among others: The finest Bergonzi in ingly large and interested audience, impressed America, a gem for tone and beauty, by his fine musicianship and technical com­ $12,500; a JOSEPH GUARNERI DEL GESU petence He will open hi s program with the (cost $62,000 in some years ago), Vivaldi Concerto, one of the more dazzling com­ now $45,000! Another formerly sold for positions by that eighteenth century virtuoso, about $50,000, now $25,000. and will continue with the opening movement of the celebrated Mendelssohn Concerto. The WURLITZER second half of the program includes shorter 120 West 42nd Street, New York works by Bach, Gluck, Brahms, Schubert, and Telephone Wisconsin 7-8140 Paganini Otto Seyfert will assist at the piano. 25 A Scholar Magician

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The Week in Review The foremost authorities in the field of inter­ national relations continue to sift bewildering facts from bewildering fictions in the Institute's Ranch Mink $1650 Tuesday morning lectures, "The Week in Re­ view." Trencher-fashioned and Trencher-made, in On March 10, Edna Lee Booker, author of the daylight workrooms of Trencher, the largest exclusive Furrier in *Old New York. 'News 1s ./Hy Job and former representative of the International News Service in China, will •277 GRAND STREET, NEW YORK interpret the fateful happenings now taking place in the Pacific. For eighteen years Miss Booker traveled over thousands of miles of China's hinterland to interview war lords; she The Norfolk Music School followed guerrilla armies in the field and re­ OF YALE UNIVERSITY ported the bombings, floods, and famines that Ellen Battell Stoeckel Foundation beset the country. Correspondent of the Christian Science .lltoni­ • lor in Russia and Japan for the last seventeen at Norfolk, Connecticut years, William Henry Chamberlin not only ( 1300 feet elevation) knows history but has lived it. He interviewed JUNE 22 - JULY 31 leaders, investigated developments, and fearless­ For information write BRUCB SIMONDS, Director, ly reported what he found. His observations Sprague Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. have been incorporated in numerous articles and books, among them the gloomily prophetic Japan Over Asia. Mr. Chamberlin acts as analyst on March 17. Ian Hay, who is best known in America as THE HABIT OF SAVING the kilted soldier-author of the first World War, once acquired, is easy to maintain. speaks on March 24. 'Jbe 1irst 'Hundred 'Jhou­ Let us help you form the habit. We suggest our convenient plan for ~and, reminiscences of his war experiences, was banking by mail. Ask for our de­ read by millions on both sides of the Atlantic. scriptive folder explaining this simple Director of Public Relations for the British War plan. One dollar opens an account. Office until a few months ago, Mr. Hay adds an intimate understanding of the human aspects East Brooklyn Savings Bank of the war to his military knowledge. Selwyn Bedford aod De Kalb Anoaea Founded 1860 CoMVtMitMt to reach by 8th .Ave. Subway James, globe-trotting foreign news editor of aMd maMy ca,. liMes. P./l't, returns to the series on March 31. ----~-~--~------~---

William Starr Myers OLOEST ESTABLISHMENT OF BLECTIIOLYSIS llf B&OOJtLYN Latest developments in the national and in ternational scene will be discussed by William Starr Myers on Friday evening, March 6. Pro­ fessor of Politics at Princeton University and an eminent authority on American history, Pro­ fessor Myers is author of many articles and M nhods BMdorsed by .All Promilltlll PhysiciaMI standard works in both fields. Among his best HOURS BY APPOINTMENT known writings are Amen can Den10cracy 1 a­ MRS. J. T. SALMAN day and 'Jhe R.epublicatl Party, A 'History. His 26 COURT STREET TRiaoale 15-151560 pungent and forthright lectures have long been New York Ofllce: 151 E. Und St. MUrra7 Hill %-15Sl0 popular with Institute members. 27 Philippine Background In a dust-nlled corner of the Bataan Pentnsula -===•==::::;,ONE OF BROOKlYN'S Gen. MacArthur's small army of Americans OI.nES? JEWELERS Peters and Filipinos still clings desperately to the last IHUIOtUIC~S 0 new S~rvic, bit of the United States' hold on Luzon. To WEe~~~~~: DIAMONDS understand the magnificence of the resistance Old Gold nnd O utmoded J ewelry one must consider not only the strategic irn All tra11sactio11s strictly co11fidential portance of the Philippines but the political, • A fe\V or tht pleres we h1ne bought are too One to "br.. k up" 'l'h•se we hRre Just 1111t on ••le to 1he economic, and social forces as well. W. P. public, Inrluded •re rings, brnr•l•fl. pJr10, wntchee. Priru are athantnrrou~ Your lnspertton Ia tnvtted. Ainsworth, who will be remembered for his PETERS, QUALITY JEWELERS SINCE 1900 spirited talk in "The Week in Review" series, 480 Fulton St. (next to Loeser's) Open Evenlnt• returns to lecture on "The Philippine Back ground," on Tuesday evening, March 17. ~.!:::==·===~ Mr. Ainsworth learned about the Philippines A~IERICA'S FOUR MARVEL THEATRES! the hard way. At seventeen he ran away from History ,':., Making school to join the United States Army. lie im All the latest news from mediately found himself bound East to help 4 CORNERS OF THE GLORI': stamp out the Aguinaldo Insurrection, which Educational and Political Films broke out after America took possession of Travel and Humorous FUme Fashion and Sport Films the Islands. Later, as an official in the Bureau And once each month the famous "March of Time" of Navigation, he made a comprehensive survey 20c to 2 P.M. of many of the thousands of islands, gaining an Embassy New sreel The atres insight and understanding of the people while , 88 W. I!Otb St. engaged in charting the country. New Broadway and 46th St. York { Broadway and '72nd St. Park Ave. and 42nd St. As Dickens Saw Us Charles Dickens nrst came to America ex Brooklyn Ethical Culture School actly a century ago. The country prepared to 49 and 50 Prospect Park West greet the author with the same enthusiastic fer PRE-KINDERGARTEN THROUGH 8TII GRADE vor it had displayed toward his works. On The best Investment Parents can make today Is February 17, held a resplendent to give their young children a firm educational. physical and emotional foundation In a modern, banquet in his honor. But Dickens at once progressive school Phone SOuth 8-4300. launched into a vigorous attack on-among other things-our copyright laws, penal institu­ lew York Toastmasters Club tions, and the barbarity of slavery, rousing the MEN interested in meeting with a Public Speak- ~ anger of his hosts. Some of the criticism was ing Club held in Brooklyn are invited to write to address below for dale of next meeting. valid, but all of it was tactless. Not content BEGINNERS as well us advanced speakers with merely speaking his mind, he proceeded to welcome. Opportunity for patriotic speaking assignments to those interested. Practice at write it in his Americau 'Notes and .:Martin all regular dinner sessions llarold Torbohm, 4 15a McDonough St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Clmzzlewit. What he wrote was not designed I to soften our wrath, for he minced no words in TWO CONVENIENT OFFICES stating his impressions of American democracy MAIN OFFICE: in its less attractive aspects. Lafayette and Flatbuah A venues Dr. Houston Peterson, Professor of Phi­ o,,llstle Ac•d,ty 11/ Msuic BAY PARKWAY BRANCH: losophy at Rutgers University and head of the 6633 Bay Parkway Cooper Union Forum, makes an inquiry into .AI 22nd .Av~""e Statitm, S1a B~ach U"' the whole tradition of visiting critics in his lec­ Orga"i"d 1886 ture, "As Dickens Saw Us a Century Ago," on Friday evening, March 20 Dr. Peterson needs CIT"Y" no introduction to Institute members, who will recall his witty, stimulating talks and the lively 5AVINli5 BANK scholarship of studies like 'JIJe ~Melody of Chao~ and 'JIJe f.onely Debate. 28 Overtures and Undertones rTHE CURRENT THEATER ,, Two new albums released by Columbia Recording Corporation arc of unusual mtcrcst to true lovers of symphonic music.-Sct M-500, Beethoven's Piano Con­ certo o. 5 in E-Fiat Major (The " Fmperor") marks the Masterworks debut of the world-renowned young pianist, , in the greatest of all piano concertos, done with the magnificent support of the ew York Phtlharmonic-Symphony under the inspired leadership of Set M-4<>5, which marks a welcome and interesting mnovation in symphonic recordings, ts an interpretation by Artur Rodzinski and the Cleveland Orchestra of Jerome Kern's cele­ brated music for his great musical corned), Show "A modern classic .•• b eautiful Hoat," especia ll y arranged by the composer as a Sce­ .• t'Xt'iting ••• memorable." nario for Orchestra" The ~erkin-\X!alter ''1:-mperor Ri~hard W a tt ~. 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