That 80 percent of the musicians aided by the Musicians Emergency Aid were Jewish, was revealed in the official report of Madame Yolanda Mero-Irion, Director of the Drive, to Walter Damrosch, chairman.
The report covers the period of nearly one year during which the Musicians Emergency Aid has functioned.
This large group of Jewish people was benefitted, the report shows, in many substantial ways suited to the individual needs, and only 86 percent of all the applicants were known to the Emergency Relief and the Home Relief Bureaus. Forms of aid included not only money, but rent, food, employment, doctors, hospitalization, and other subsidies.
The original fund, designed to aid professionals, and raised by those successful in the profession, was $345,000.
No requests for contributions to the Aid will be made this year, Dr. Damrosch has announced, but the attention of the public is called to five festival concerts to be given by the Musicians Emergency Aid with an orchestra of 175 musicians in Madison Square Garden. November 26th, Jascha Heifetz, soloist, Dr. Damrosch conducting; December 10, Efrem Zimbalist and Paul Kochanski, and six pianists; January 11, Bruno Walter conducting, and Ossip Gabrilowitsch, soloist; January 25, Schola Cantorum and Oratorio Society, ensemble of dancers; April 3, Fritz Kreisler, Sergei Rachmaninoff, pianists, Eugene Goossens conducting.
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