Word: damrosche
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...pressagents claim that, on her third birthday, she furiously demolished a toy piano because it had no F sharp and she could not play The Last Rose of Slimmer on it. Mana-Zucca made her debut as a pianist at eight with the New York Symphony under Dr. Walter Damrosch. Year later she published her first composition...
...past 20 years many a young U. S. musician, waiting in the wings for a career, has had an elegant, last-minute, Gallic primping: a summer at Fontainebleau near Paris. Dr. Walter Damrosch started the idea, after running a wartime school in which U. S. bandmasters took a high French polish. The late Composer Camille Saint-Saëns helped found, and the late Composer Maurice Ravel long figure-headed, Fontainebleau's American Conservatory, for which the French Government made available the Louis XV wing of the old royal palace. As many as 180 students worked with France...
...Paul Whiteman's orchestra. Last week 8,000 people jammed the acoustically excellent, open-sided amphitheatre to hear Pianist Templeton. He warmed up on classics, soon went to town with Grieg's in the Groove. By the time he gave his irreverent impression of senatorial Dr. Walter Damrosch analyzing Three Little Fishies for children, Alec Templeton had Chautauqua roaring its approval...
Married. Alice Damrosch Wolfe, ski-minded daughter of famed Conductor Walter Johannes Damrosch; and Herman Kiaer, Deputy High Commissioner for Norway to the 1939 New York World's Fair; in Manhattan: she for the third time, he for the first...
...white-haired, senatorial Walter Damrosch went to St. Louis to conduct a Saengerjest held by St. Louis' song-loving German-Americans. Billed as soloist on his program was a tall, buxom, blonde St. Louis soprano named Helen Traubel. When he heard her sing he excitedly mopped his brow, advised her to apply for a job at Manhattan's Metropolitan. In 1937, when Conductor Damrosch's opera The Man without a Country was premiered during the Metropolitan's minor-league spring season, Helen Traubel sang its leading role, and springtime critics gave her top marks...