Naoum Blinder

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NAOUM BLINDER
CELEBRATED VIOLINIST and EXCLUSIVE COLUMBIA RECORD ARTIST
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Columbia



THE SWARTHMORE CHAUTAUQUA ASSOCIATION
presents
THE FAMOUS RUSSIAN VIOLINIST
NAOUM BLINDER
direct from his triumphal tours of Russia, Palestine, Turkey, Japan
in his


FIRST AMERICAN TOUR

PROGRAM
(subject to change)



Praclud and Allegro
J. Pugnani-Kreisler


Melodie
Gluck


Rondo
Mozart


Serenade Melancolique
Tschaikowsky


Perpetuum Mobile
Novacek


Ave Maria
Schubert


Caprice Viennois
Kreisler


Tambourin Chinois
Kreisler


Improvisation
Ernest Bloch


La Ronde des Lutins
Bazzini


At the Piano
VALENTINE PAVLOVSKY






NAOUM BLINDER'S arrival in America is the outcome of two happy circumstances.  Felix Warburg, celebrated New York financier and music patron, met him at Vladivostok, Siberia, in 1927, and gave him letters of introduction to the American Embassy at Tokyo, Japan.  In like manner, Louis Sterling, Chairman of the Board of the Columbia Phonograph Company, happening just then to be in Japan, heard Mr. Blinder play there.  In consequence, this artist now has a long term contract to make Columbia Records exclusively.

Born in Eupatoria, Crimea, in 1891, Mr. Blinder has had a colorful life at home and abroad.  At fourteen years of age, he graduated from the Imperial Conservatory of Odessa.  He then entered the Royal Academy of Music in Manchester, England.  Thence he went to London, and his career there was well under way when, in 1911, he was summoned to fill the post of violin professor at the Imperial Conservatory of Odessa, where he remained till 1920, except when absent at war and on concert tours.

In 1921, he began a spectacular tour of all Russia, which included appearances with the philharmonic societies of Moscow, Leningrad, Odessa, and Kief, under such noted conductors as Glazounoff, Klemperer, and Fried.  In 1922, he was invited to take a professorship in the Moscow Conservatory.

In 1926, he played six concerts in Constantinople, at the Palace of Angora, for Kemal Pascha, President of the Republic of Turkey.  Next year he made a triumphal tour of Japan.

Mr. Blinder's American debut was made in a Columbia Phonograph Company Celebrity Radio Hour, April 4, 1928, and his first American concert hall recital was at Carnegie Hall, New York City, April 10, 1928, under the auspices of the American Society for Cultural Relations with Russia.  Following these, he was engaged for Chautauqua Circuit for the summer of 1928, and was also appointed professor at New York's distinguished Institute of Musical Art.



PRESS OPINIONS

Moscow Theatrical Review, 1921
The young virtuoso revealed wonderful technic, colossal, powerful and beautiful tone; he is a supreme master of his instrument.


Constantinople Hakimet Milane, April 21, 1926
Six brilliant concerts were given by the Russian artist, Mr. Naoum Blinder.  A deep impression was produced by the artist on President Kemal Pascha, on the Premier, and on all others present.


Tokyo Japan Advertiser, June 27, 1927
Blinder repeats former success—delights audience with brilliant playing.


New York Sun, April 11, 1928
A player of lofty purpose and artistic ideals … a wealth of nuance, brilliance, warmth, and fine appreciation of the intent of the composers whom he interprets.




NAOUM BLINDER
VIOLINIST
Makes Records Exclusively for Columbia
Naoum Blinder's Columbia records will preserve for you permanently in your home the playing of this great artist.  The following two records have already been issued, and more are to come:



12 INCH - $1.25


5075-M
Grave
Friedeman Bach—Kreisler



Ave Maria
Schubert—Wilhelmj


5077-M
Serenade Melancolique.
Part 1. Tschaikowsky



Serenade Melancolique.
Part 2. Tschaikowsky



Once you have played a Columbia record on your phonograph, or heard a Columbia record played anywhere, you will never again be satisfied with a tone any less rich and natural.  Made the new way, electrically, Viva-tonal recording, Columbia New Process Records are known the world over as the records without scratch.



COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY
NEW YORK CITY
DEALERS EVERYWHERE


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Columbia

50M-May, 1928

(Printed in U.S.A.)

All Trade Marks Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.: M.R. M. Ind  Nos 18 y 18426 de o de Agosio 1920y 26088 de 23de Agosto 1926.  Marcs Industrial Registtrods  Nos  2648y 2672