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They sang earnestly, well; showed excellent results of careful rehearsing in their local clubs. Walter Damrosch, famed symphonic conductor, directed them. Anna Fitziu, soprano, was the assisting soloist...
...Walter Damrosch, dean of conductors, appeared for the last time this season as leader of the New York Symphony at the fourth concert for young people. Genial, loquacious, he said good-by to his audience, told its members that when they were still freezing in New York he would be wearing the whitest of flannels in Sicily...
...striking as his stature (nearly 7 ft.) and appearance. Artur Bodanzky, conductor of the Metropolitan Opera Co., who knew him as a young man, declares, "He has never been known to approach a musical composition from a conventional or customary angle." Born in 1885 (the year Walter Damrosch first conducted the New York Symphony), he spent his early years in the operatic field. He was still in his early 20's when Gustav Mahler sought and secured his services as conductor in the German Opera House at Prague. Strasburg, Cologne and Berlin knew him for several years. He went...
Conductor Damrosch beamed. At last the throaty and macabre yowl of modern America was about to be lifted into a new melodic line; patrons were about to learn that there is no modern music worth mentioning except the flawed melodies that a very old barroom piano, operated by a coin, can send tilting, spilling, staggering, into the languor of a summer twilight...
...Damrosch raised his arm and thereafter the assembled audience listened intently for a considerable time. They heard pinguid plati- tudes of the symphonic concert hall resuscitated; they heard discreet echoes of Tschaikowsky, of Stravinsky, of Rachmaninov; they heard sentimental melodies in pseudo-jazz they heard the anxiously im- mature opus of a youth who-no longer child of the Cyclades and of Broadway-has become an earnest aspirant for musical respectability. There was nothing daring, nothing racy, nothing even individual Law- rence Gilman said...