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...Good Friday Music. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony) which Arturo Toscanini crossed the ocean specially to conduct in Carnegie Hall last May (TIME, May 9). Last week was publicized a series of bigger biggest, greater greatest benefit performances. With the co-operation of National Broadcasting Co., Dr. Walter Damrosch will put on five monster concerts in Madison Square Garden-Nov. 26, Dec. 10, Jan. 2, 11 and 25. Proceeds will go to the Musicians' Emergency Aid. Some features...
Biggest of all will be the last, with an orchestra of 200, chorus of 1,000, and 1,000 actors, dancers and soloists in a colossal pageant-pantomime. This will be a world premiere, with scenery by Joseph Urban. Who the composer and what the subject. Dr. Damrosch would not tell last week. No shooter of all his fireworks at once, he said: "I shall keep the secret closely locked in my breast until the right time comes...
...immediately apparent that Walter Damrosch's onetime son-in-law, Architect Pleasants Pennington, raises pigeons. A bamboo aviary of them (built in spare time by Architect Mogens Tvede), surrounded by flowering plants, occupied the centre of the first of two exhibition rooms...
Died. Johanna Gadski, 59, famed Wagnerian soprano, of a fractured skull received in an automobile crash; in Berlin. German-born, she was brought to the J. S. by Walter Damrosch in 1895 and, though young and inexperienced, was acclaimed by Manhattan. In recent years she toured the U. S. with the German Grand Opera Company, a mediocre organization which her rich young idolizer Geraldine Hall Bangs, Manhattan socialite, subsidized so that Gadski could go on singing in opera. Mrs. Bangs was driving the car which crashed last week with a Berlin trolley. She and Captain Hans Tauscher, Gadski...
...Inaugurated was a nine-month patriotic celebration. At noon President Hoover addressed a joint session of Congress, attended by his Cabinet and the diplomatic corps. After his speech he appeared at the east front of the Capitol and heard 12,000 people sing "America" under the direction of Walter Damrosch and John Philip Sousa. After lunch the President motored to Alexandria, Va. to review a parade which included cadets from Virginia Military Institute, the Richmond Blues, American Legionnaries and the apparatus which George Washington bought for Alexandria's Friendship Fire Company. At Mount Vernon the President spoke...