Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-01-23 | Page 5 | Musicians Get Chance to Give Opinion of Critics

f 11 Get i to Give i pinion Opinion of C KE YORK ORR Jan 22 i 1 Some Somo J of the nations nation's most distInguished dis- dis musicians today were j 1 r the satisfaction of exPressing expressing ex- ex pressing In the press their opinion ot of music critics whose columns f f have o been devoted to a discriminating F I n ot of the artists j The opportunity however without without with with- out exception was taken advantage t of by the musicians to praise the i The The- occasion was a concert yes yes- r M t which Olin Olin Downes I of the Times Professor i John Jhn Erskine author and Ernst ot of Steinway Sops s swapped their role roIo ot of critic pianist while seven seyen professional i musIcians including Josef Hofman I F j j an and Albert lbert Spalding were accorded t i the of the press their opinion I f Josef Hofman In the TImes TIme dealt 5 leniently wIth the artists How Iio disappointing it was to discover Mr Hofman wrote that m my admiration admiration ad- ad for Mr Downes' Downes pl art was of a tar far more tender na- na hire turo than is often the case caso when i. i tho roles roles' are reversed As Asa a solo solo- j y t 1st 1st l irr ErskIne was most success most success success- ful I congratulate Dowries Downes Erskine and for having gIven moments ot of happiness to those who listen to music less with t their brains and more with their hearts W Ernest Hutcheson In the Herald Herald- i TrIbune wrote the program was wasS S j unconventional and expressed I concealed surprIse at the merits of 5 the artists There was a fine ine tingle tingUi tin tin- 5 gUi gle of warmth in it as of men on S their mettle I However Mr Hutcheson conS con con- S eluded Mr l Dowries Downes after aCter his venture yenS yen yen- S ture at the keyboard will write L t criticism as discriminating as before be be- fore ore and no less l k I