Professor Spielman to Give Two Concerts at Town Hal Professor S. Spielman, a noted Russian cellist who is proceeding to the United States to take up the! position of teacher of the cello the Boston Conservatory of Music, fs paying a brief visit to Shanghai, and will be heard in two concerts in conjunction with the Symphony Orchestra, on Sunday, March 18, a 'Thursday, March 22.' The first' cor cert will be at 6 pin, and the second at 9.15.
'With the exception of Mme. Premis law, who played here seven years ago, Shanghai has heard no eellist of' note since the visit, in 1916, of Bougamil Sycora, Owing to the paucity of visits of this character, we have lapsed into the, belief that only those Whose names grace phonograph records are the true artists of this world. This is ent opportunity to convince themselves of this.
Full details of the two program mes will be published later. It is. worth noting, in the mean time, that at the first concert Professor 8} man will play the wonderful "Kol Nidrei" of Max Bruch, as well as. Tshaikowsky's "Variations on 'Theme Rococo." At the second, with the collaboration of Mr. A: Foa, he will be heard in the Brahms. Double Concerto for Violin and 'Cello, and in the Bach Sonata for' 'Cello' (without accompaniment).
Professor Spielman's academic honours are numerous indeed, and. Shanghai has once more the chance to listen to a truly great perform-
Arrangements are being made by local merchants to erect a statue in memory of the late Mr. Li Ping-hea, former chairman of the Shanghai District Chamber of Commerce and leading local merchant.
Tite Shanghai and Woosung Gar-sion Commissioner has recommended to Nanking that the Chinese Merchant Volunteers should be placed under the control of the local Commissioner of Public Safety, says the Chinese press.
Tue Municipal police attached Pootoo Road station found numerous Communist posters on the ai niversary of Dr. Sun Yat-se death, which contaifled the following points:—Bring about the d fall of the Kuomintang; the mills should be given to labourers; kill all traitors to labour; start the mob movement: shoot and kill Chiang. Kai-shek; join the Bolshevists; down with the capitalists; and jo Commanist Party.
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