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...York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stokowski, Rodzinski, Walter, and Damrosch--at different times, of course. It has Heifetz, Rubenstein, Pinza, Piatigorsky, and other artists. It has Vaughn Monroe and Harry James. It has an insipid plot that runs contrapuntal to Beethoven's "Fifth" and Tehaikovsky's "Piano Concerto"--you know ... "Tonight we love...
Blackened chimneys were all that remained of two resort hotels, the Belmont and the Malvern. The summer homes of Author Mary Roberts Rinehart, Conductor Walter Damrosch, the late Henry Morgenthau Sr. and scores of other wealthy people had burned as though they were built of butter pats and bacon rinds. U.S. cancer research had received a terrible blow. The red-brick Jackson Memorial Laboratory, with its irreplaceable records and 90,000 precious mice, which had been carefully inbred for generations to produce various manifestations of cancer, had been destroyed...
...American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, a luxurious classroom for U.S. art & music students, had grown out of Walter Damrosch's World War I school for Army bandmasters. Among those who passed through its famed English gardens and composition classes were Aaron Copland, Walter Piston and Dick Rodgers (of Rodgers & Hart). In the early '20s, Composer Francis Casadesus had run the music school. Present director: his famed nephew, Pianist Robert Casadesus, whose wife, Pianist Gaby, is also on the faculty...
Nonetheless, the picture has a certain documentary interest. In it, posterity may see how many of today's most prominent musicians-some good, some not so good -look and act at close range, under weirdly confused, commercial circumstances. These artists include Damrosch, Heifetz, Pinza, Pons, Rodzinski, Rubinstein, Stokowski...
...years later, Damrosch called Helen Traubel to New York to sing The Man Without a Country. His opera survived only five performances at the Metropolitan, but Helen Traubel so impressed NBC officials that they offered her a $10,000 contract. Traubel soon decided that she liked neither the music she had to sing nor the way she had to sing it, and tore up the contract...