THELMA REISS (violoncello)
HARRIET COHEN (pianoforte) ERNST BLOCH was originally a Swiss composer, and as a younger man made a career in Geneva, not only as a musician, but, in his spare time, as a lecturer on Metaphysics at the University. In 1916, however, he went to the United States as a conductor to Maud Allan on tour, was there invited to conduct one of his works with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and thereafter settled in New York. He is now, therefore, according to American somewhat acquisitive standards, a one hundred per cent. American composer, and Swiss merely by an accident of birth. As a musician, however, his reputation is international and rapidly rising.
THELMA REISS AND HARRIET COHEN