Word: damrosche
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...George Gershwin, ringmaster of fascinating ryhthms, who, last week, was commissioned to write a jazz composition for the New York Symphony Society. Critic-composer Deems Taylor had also agreed, at the Society's behest, to compose an orchestral work for its program next season; the august Director, Dr. Walter Damrosch himself, had announced that he would conduct the Society's famed orchestra at the presentation of Gershwin's, of Taylor's, compositions. Inevitably, the pressmen wanted to catch Mr. Gershwin before he sailed for London. They wanted to ask him if he were fond of animals, if he had ever...
...deck of the transatlantic liner Aquitania, scheduled to sail in a few hours for Europe, Conductor Walter Damrosch stood beside a Negro, extended to him a small disk of metal. Passengers who observed the ceremony could readily perceive that this was no casual donation of a gratuity. The little disk was, indeed, the highest formal honor which a Negro can achieve?the Spingarn medal, awarded annually* to that Negro who, in the opinion of a committee, has better deserved distinction than any other of his race. Tenor Roland Hayes, the recipient, expressed his thanks...
...Said Mr. Damrosch: "In the last 25 years, Negroes have made great strides in the cultivation of civilized or European music; among these, Roland Hayes is one of the most eminent, because he has really penetrated into the emotional and spiritual content of the music of our great masters...
...Walter Damrosch, in his eulogy of Tenor Hayes?an unusually felicitous utterance from the famed conductor?did well to stress the adjectives "civilized," "European," as applied to accepted music. For, while it is rare that a Negro comes to note for his interpretation of "the music of our old masters," there is another musical tradition which arose out of the black race and has bid fair to jostle civilized, European music into limbo...
...another year or two, and will make a few obviously necessary changes in its personnel, it will become a marvelous instrument. It is already a remarkable one. The New York Symphony Orchestra I heard only two or three times; it has apparently become so part and parcel of Mr. Damrosch that it is difficult for an outsider to estimate it purely and simply as an orchestra. The State Symphony Orchestra, again, I heard only under Mr. Stransky, and, for one concert, under Mr. Waghalter...