Famed actors and vaudevillians frequently gather and perform for the financial sake of some sweet charity, but musicians are supposedly more serious, isolated folk who do not indulge in such mass gestures. Thus it was contrary to precedent last week when, before a Manhattan audience of some 3,000, Soprano Lucrezia Bori permitted herself to be hoisted up on a piano by Pianist Ernest Schelling and to sit, swinging her pretty legs, singing Spanish songs. Pianists José Iturbi, Harold Bauer, Josef Lhevinne, Ernest Hutcheson, Harold Samuel, John Erskine, Rudolph Ganz and Olga Samaroff...
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