Evening star., 1930-12-11
MERGER AFFECTS
MUSICAL ARTISTS
Seven Great Bureaus
Brought in Closer Touch
With Radio by Columbia.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December 11-Merger
cf seven of the largest concert bureaus
| in America is announced today by the
| Columbia Broadcasting System which a
year ago formed an alliance with the
Paramount Publix Corporation and
which now extends its operations to a
! field in which great majority of the
finest musical artists of the world are
I.engaged. The Columbia Brcadcasting
System now has 76 radio stations.
The merger is described by the in
| terestS involved as the most important
| step ever taken in the musical field
since its inception in this country. The
new organization, the Columbia Concerts
| Corporation, will set out on January
| to better the musical situation in Vir-
| tualy every important city in the
country, as well as assist conditions
surrounding artists themselves.
The merged organizations have long
been associated with the concert and
operate stages of the entire world and
with the outstanding vocalistS, instru-
mentalists and orchestras They are
Concert Management Arthur Judson,
Inc; Metropolitan Musical Bureau,
Wolfsohn Musical Bureau of New York,
| Inc; Evans and Salter, Haensel and
| Jones, Community Concerts Corpora
| ton and Judson Radio Program Corpor-
alton.
Sees Bright Future.
William S. Paley, president of Column
bia. will be chairman OF the board OF OF
the new organization. Its president will
be Arthur Judson. manager of the New
/ York Philharmonic Symphony and
Philadelphia Symphony; F. C. Coppicus,
formerly secretary of the Metropolitan
| Opera Co. and manager of Caruso,
Scott, Chaliapin and Marion Talley,
and now manager of Jeritza, Ponzelle.
Argentina and Paul Robson and many
other artists, will be executive vice
president in charge of production.
Lawrence Evans and Jack Salter, man
ayers of Galli-Curci, Rethberg, Tibbett
and Menuhin; Fitzhugh w. Haensel,
boy violinist Ricci, and John Trevor
Adams, head of the Judson Radio Pro-
gram Corporation, and Edward Klauber
| of Columbia will be vice presidents.
Ralph F. Colin will be treasurer and
J general counsel. Howard L. Taylor of
the American Opera Co., Frederick C.
Schang, jr., who will be sales manager
for the new company, and Horace Par
malee, all concert managers of wide
experience, complete the list Of execu-
| tives. General Offices will be In New
| York.
A solution of the problems, which
have beset the badly disorganized con-
cert field for at least 10 years first
became possible with the appointment
a few months ago of Milton Diamond
international lawyer. as the czar OF
concert activities. Mr.. Diamond was
placed at the head of the Music Pro-
ducing Managers Association, which
was formed by the concert managers
who are now parties to the merger
| Mr.. Paley saw in the new alliance OF
the once highly competitive concert
arrangements an opportunity for mas
| ter stroke in assuring radio a closer
| relationship with the great artists of
| the world. He said, How far this is
| going to carry us no one yet knows, but
I honestly believe that in few more
years we win not have to bow our
heads when we hear of Europeans as
nations of music lovers"
The effect of the consolidation and
Of the aff1liation which it makes be-
| tween concert management, musical
| artists and radio broadcasting will be,
| according to joint announcement by
/ the merging interests, to give a new
impetus to cultural entertainment.
The following artists are represented
| in the new organization:
| Florence Austral, Hilda Burke, Claire
/ Dux, Nanette Gulford, Maria Kurenko
| Hulda Lashanska, Alice Mock, Nina
Morgana, Rachel Morton, Merle Alcock
Marian Anderson. Sophie BraSlau, Doro-
| thea Flicker, Kathryn Maisle, Maria
/ Olszewski, Eleanor Reynolds, Dino Bor-
I gioli, Mario Chamlee, Ralph Errolle, Ar
| thur Hackett, Giovanni Martinelli
| Richard Bonelli, Nelson Eddy, Herbert
| Heyner, Heinrich Schulsnus, Chase
| Baromeo, Ezio PIMA, Ruth Breton,
Jascha Heifetz. Nathan Milstein, Albert
| Spalding, Joseph Szigeti, Jacques Thi-
| baud. Efrem imbalist, Alexander Bra
! ilowsky, Abram Chasins, Ossip Gabrilo-
| witsch, Gitta Gradova, Vladimir Horo-
| witZ, Ernest Hutcheson, Jose Iturbi, Al
1 fred Mirovitch, Nikolai Orloff, Carlo
Zecchi, Gregory Piatigorsky, Alfred
| Wallenstein, John Amadio, Georges
| Barrere, Lewis Richards, Ernest Schell-
ing.
Barrere Little Symphony, Barrere
Wood Wind Ensemble, International
Singers, London String Quartet, Lener
String Quartet, New York String
Quartet, Philadelphia String Quar-
tet, Philadelphia Chamber, String
! GbliCl DdIJlCAL ana rae
/ Robertson, American Opera Company,
Smallman Cappella Choir, Anna
| Duncan (dancer), Madeleine Grey in
program Of folk music, Metropolitan
/ Musical Bureau. Rosa Ponselle, Maria
| Jeritza, Grace Moore, Lily Pons, Sigrid
Onegin, Edward Johnson, Paul Robson,
Harold Bauer, Mischa Elman, Erika
Morini
La Argentina, the English Singers,
| the Aguila Lutte Quartet, the Don Cos
sack Russian Male Chorus, Evans and
Saller, Amelita Galli-Curci; Elizabeth
Rethberg. Tito Schipa, Lawrence Tib-
bett, Yehudi Menuhin, Haensel and
Jones. Luella Melius, Elsa Alsen, Olga
Averino, Mary Craig, Ethel Fox, May
Peterson. Gina Pinnera, Helen Stanley
Marie Sundelius. Jeannette Vreeland
! Grace Leslie, Marion TelVa, Nevada
van de Veer, Robert Goldsaud, Kath-
arine Goodson, Serge Prokofieff, Clara
Rabinovitch, Sylvia Lent, Ruggiere
Ricci, Toscha SeideI. Two-Piano re-
cital: Edwin and Jewel and Bethany
Hughes. Mildred Dilling. Paul Althouse
I, Henry Calncy, Richard Crooks, Allan
Jones' Edward Ransome. Frederic Baer
Herbert Gould. Fred PattonA Harrington
van Hoesen. Metropolitan Grand Opera
Quartet: Marie Sundelius, Marion Telva
Paul Althcuse, Fred Patton. Ethel Fos
and Allan Jones and Leo, Jan and
Mischief Cherniaysky.
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