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...With an offer of $4,000 per broadcast RCA brought out of retirement the 70-year-old former conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, (1 Leopold Stokowski, 2 Galliano Masini, 3 Jose Iturbi, 4 Arturo Toscanini, 5 Walter Damrosch...
...dapper, long-nosed, quick-moving little Ravel visited the U. S. to conduct some of his own compositions with Walter Damrosch's New York Symphony and other U. S. orchestras. Shy, almost hysterically affable as a conductor, he seemed continuously surprised and pleased that his music sounded so well. Once he lost his place in the middle of his own La Valse and had to be pulled through by the orchestra...
...played on his famed Lamoureux (Strads, like Pullman cars, all have individual names). Listeners marveled at the mellow, homogeneous tone quality of the eight glistening, red-gold instruments played by the Musical Art Quartet and the Stradivarius .Quartet of New York, the small string orchestra over which senatorial Walter Damrosch waved a deliberate baton. The occasion for this Stradivarius display was the 200th anniversary of the death of Antonio Stradivari. Proceeds went to the recently founded Stradivarius Memorial Association, which helps make fine instruments available to talented young musicians...
Honorary sponsors of the current tour which opens on Friday, December 24, include: Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Walter Damrosch, conductor emeritus. New York Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia orchestra, John Barbirolli conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony orchestra, and Werner Jannsen, conductor and composer...
When veteran Conductor Walter Damrosch once asked a schoolchild who Charles Wakefield Cadman was, the child answered: "He's a great American Indian." Prior to 1915 Cadman spent some time among the Osages and Omahas, recording their music, lecturing on it, deriving themes from it. Two decades ago he turned from such ventures to the writing of opera, produced Shanewis, first U. S. opera to survive two seasons in the repertory of the Metropolitan Opera House, and A Witch of Salem, given by the Chicago Civic Opera Company. Then he turned to orchestral pieces and chamber music. An indefatigable...