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...passing of Harriet Bishop Lanier, relict of Banker James F. D. Lanier (Winslow, Lanier & Co.), who in 19 years gave nearly $1,000,000 toward the support of the Society of the Friends of Music. Fortnight ago people perfunctorily approved a memorial concert to Mrs. Lanier in which Conductor Artur Bodanzky presented the Actus Tragicus, Bach's mourning cantata. But last week musical people were startled. Unless another patron is found, the Friends will be able to perform no more of the great, rare music for which they are famed...
Other major orchestras are scheduled to give their first programs this week: The Chicago Symphony with Conductor Frederick Stock beginning his 27th season; the Cincinnati Symphony with Eugene Goossens beginning his first; the Seattle Symphony with Karl Krueger. Next week will begin the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Artur Rodzinski, the Minneapolis Symphony with Henri Verbrugghen, the St. Louis Symphony with Vladimir Golschmann, the Milwaukee Philharmonic with Frank Laird Waller. Rochester, N. Y. with different guest conductors, Portland, Ore. (Willem van Hoogstraten), Omaha (Joseph Littau) and Syracuse (Vladimir Shavitch) save their openings for November...
...Present were Conductors Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Nikolai Sokoloff, Walter Damrosch, Artur Bodansky, Ernest Schelling, Composers Deems Taylor, George Gershwin, Arthur Shepherd, Aaron Copland, Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza of the Metropolitan Opera, French Ambassador Paul Claudel (librettist of Darius Milhaud's Christopher Columbus...
...Duke of Tuscany. But the Metropolitan audience was unusually enthusiastic, broke its rule, stayed almost to a dowager until the final curtain. Soprano Maria Jeritza (Boccaccio) was the magnet for most. She was radiantly fair, displayed calves beyond the dreams of most opera singers. One waltz, compiled by Conductor Artur Bodanzky from Suppe themes, she sang with such lilt that it stopped the show, set many to wishing that she would do in the U. S. some of the light-opera roles for which she is famed in Vienna, that the Metropolitan would unbend more often...
California concerts are also scheduled to begin in October. Los Angeles will have its second season under Conductor Artur Rodzinski (formerly Philadelphia Orchestra assistant), its eleventh with William Andrews Clark Jr. as sole supporter. San Francisco will have two new conductors to succeed Alfred Hertz: for the first three months, British Basil Cameron; then Russian Issai Dobrowen (recent conductor in Norway...