Word: damrosche
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Radio Music Co. intends to form a board of musical judges. The classical will be represented by such men as Walter Damrosch, Tin Pan Alley by such connoisseurs as Feist's Edgar Bitner. Anybody who has written a musical composition may submit it. To ensure unprejudiced judgments the board will be kept in ignorance of the composer's name. If a composition is accepted, Radio Music Co. will publish it, NBC will broadcast it, RKO Productions perhaps may make of it a theme song, Radio-Victor will make records of it. But in all cases Radio Corp...
Princeton University Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, missionary. LL.D. John Pierpont Morgan, banker LL.D. James Henry Brested, orientalist Litt.D. Evarts Ambrose Graham, surgeon D.Sc. William Francis Magie, physicist D.Sc. Walter Johannes Damrosch, musician. Mus.D...
...Russia and book reviews for the New Republic and many a big talk with famed Walter Lippmann, philosopher-editor of the New York World. In addition to his Post position. Broadway's Best Guesser also reviews plays, profoundly, for Theatre Arts Monthly. He is married to Anita Elaine Damrosch, daughter of Musician Walter Johannes Damrosch, granddaughter of the late great James ("Man from Maine") Blaine...
Concerts by Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony have been dull this season. Conductor Willem Mengelberg seemed sleepy. The aging Walter Damrosch was uninspired. Then, because Sir Thomas Beecham was unable to come, because Toscanini was late, there followed a string of substitute conductors - Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Fritz Reiner, Arthur Honegger, Hans Lange, Bernardino Molinari. The results were adequate but not memorable. Yet the houses were sold-out. Subscribers had bought in advance for the entire season so that they should by no sorry slip miss Toscanini...
...famed guests, Walter Damrosch. who 50 years ago played accompaniments for Madame Gerster, told anecdotes to recall her invincible personality. Once in St. Louis she announced herself too ill to sing but a certificate was necessary to convince the audience. The physician pronounced just a slight inflammation of the epiglottis and, angry, Madame Gerster sang. His bill of $60 she refused to pay and two years later when she returned to St. Louis the doctor brought suit. But Gerster refused to go to court, said she was too ill. Obligingly then the good-natured judge moved court to her hotel...