Music: Anniversary

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Personally, Irene Lewisohn is best defined by the unique work she has done and the terms in which she describes it. In appearance she is dark, slight. Her great range of acquaintances numbers Anna Pavlowa, Ramsay MacDonald, Sir Rabindranath Tagore. But few know her well. For most she is the embodiment of her dramatic ideas, a woman of mystery inevitably laden with primitive and Oriental jewelry. She does not at all resemble her famed uncle, Adolf Lewisohn* (copper), a lavish patron of music. At 80, he studies singing and dancing, knows some 200 German lieder which he talks rather than sings, desires, for his entourage, gaiety.