Gossip

Radio Record, Volume XIII, Issue 11, 21 August 1939, Page 8

Gossip

ELA BARTOK refuses to allow his music to be broadcast from Germany these days. Bartok (who is NOT a Jew), would not supply the birth-certificates of his grandparents to his Berlin publishers. . W. H. Squire, cellist and DOD Hy lar song-writer, well-known t listeners, celebrates the sixtieth anniversary this year of his first appearance in public. He "debuted" early in 1879 in Devonshire. Fritz Kreisler, violin virtuoso, an Austrian by birth, has become a naturalised Frenchman. — Some years ago the irrepressible James G. Huneker wrote that the favourite tunes of John

oa ee eee EN EEE EE ee D. Rockefeller probably were Schubert’s "Oilking," and the hymn "Praise God from Whom Oil Blessings Flow." After concentrating to a remarkable degree the ‘cellists of an orchestra under Toscanini got this cold comment from the maestro:"As musicians I give you ten; as artists-two. Ancora una volta." A legend of last century-Paga-nini’s G string was the intestine of his wife, whom he had murdered with his own hands. And this publicity was current in preBarnum days. The Italian Minister of Fine Arts has issued an edict to the effect that opera audiences must not ask for encores. This decision was taken following upon a disorderly scene at a theatre, the audience persisting in yelling for an encore which the conductor refused to grant.