Word: conductors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston Symphony came last week to Manhattan-with Serge Koussevitzky for conductor, Contralto Margarete Matzenauer, Tenor Tudor Davies, Baritone Fraser Gange for soloists, the Harvard Glee Club for a Chorus, and Speaker Paul Leyssac. This combination gave, as it did a fortnight ago in Boston (TIME, Mar. 5), the Œdipus Rex of Igor Stravinsky. Even the ablest critics sometimes disagree. Said Samuel Chotzinov (the World): ". . . a desperate attempt at a musical interpretation of lofty cosmic tragedy . . . a presumptuous drive with nothing of any consequence to back...
Likewise, the Teutonic love of music has endured the war, and persists in innumberable festivals, and still more noticeably in the breast of one of the fallen mighty. Prince Joachim Albrecht, composer and orchestra conductor, has followed Count Keyserling and Herr Ludwig across the sea, and has stirred up rather more of a storm than his predecessors. Unless his much-discussed concert materializes. America will miss a first-hand view of royalty, and the coiners of clever generalities on racial characteristics will lose a perfectly good example...
Prince Joachim Albrecht of Prussia, 53, second cousin of Wilhelm II, and a talented musician-composer-conductor, was enroute to Manhattan last week on the SS Majestic. Tactlessness on the part of his U. S. agent caused the International Dental Foundation for Chicago to cancel a symphony concert for charity which His Royal Highness was to have conducted in Manhattan. "We feel so disappointed.'' radioed officials of the Foundation to Prince Joachim Albrecht. He radioed back: "News excites me very much," and was expected to patch up the concert arrangements...
...Simon has prepared a skillfully adapted libretto, while for the other operas English versions have been carefully, through less originally, made. With each piece the singing players seek equally the dramatic values of text, action and song. Vladimir Rosing, as stage director, is the author of these courses. The conductor is Frank St. Leger, formerly of the Chicago Civic Opera Company and of Convent Garden, London. These two men have worked with the company since last summer and have themselves prepared the entire repertoire...
...vast Keith-Albee Hippodrome in uptown Manhattan. Adequately clothed, she sang briefly and badly in a vaudeville act, introduced by a sleek whippersnapper. To a few newsgatherers in her dressing room, Mrs. Browning talked intelligently, familiarly; referred to her onetime husband as impersonally as to a street car conductor. "What's the old man doing now?" queried she. He has be-become comparatively obscure, has attempted to contribute to the letter columns of various dailies. But she has been traveling the "big time" vaudeville circuit, from coast to coast, during the last year...