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...means (large real-estate holdings in Missouri) and a full-time music lover. He composed songs, piano pieces, ballets and operas (so far, not produced). For years he also held Box No. 1 at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. When Ilgrenfritz died last year at 66, he left a bequest: if the Met would perform one of his two operas (Le Passant, Phèdre), the opera company would stand to get about $125,000 (TIME...
...source in the mouth, took a long, hard look at Composer Ilgenfritz' operas and at its red-inked account books. Last week the board of directors announced its decision. The operas are competently written, said a spokesman, but "under the circumstances and as a matter of policy, the bequest should not be accepted...
...according to McNair Ilgenfritz' will, the offer will go, successively, to London's Covent Garden, Sadler's Wells, the Paris Opéra, the Paris Opéra-Comique, and the opera houses of Monte Carlo, Nice and Brussels. If, after 21 years, none accepts the bequest, the money will go to a memorial foundation to build a concert hall in Newport, R.I., where Ilgenfritz used to spend his summers...
...married Maximilian's daughter, three-year-old Margaret. The tapestry was cut into three sections sometime before the middle of the 19th century, and the various parts found their separate ways to the U.S. The Metropolitan got the right section as a bequest in 1941; last year it traded the Walters Art Gallery another fine tapestry for the center section; the left part was bought from a Manhattan dealer with funds provided by John D. Rockefeller Jr. Carefully cleaned and put together again, the tapestry turned out to be one of the most beautiful works of its kind ever...
These dinners began with the first meeting of the Society on September 25, 1933. The gathering capped years of work by President Lowell, whose bequest of $1,500,000 set up the Society financially, and whose work with Alfred North Whitehead and a Committee of other distinguished scholars drafted the Society's present form. In its report, the Committee, drawing example from foreign scholarly groups, set out what has since been the philosophy of the Society...