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Time & again Debussy took orders for music. Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza gave him an advance on operas which were never delivered to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Mrs. Elise Hall, a deaf Boston lady who on her doctor's advice had taken up the saxophone, commissioned him to write a Rhapsodie for her to play at one of her annual solo appearances with the Boston Orchestral Club, which she financed for a decade early in the century. Mrs. Hall was one of the Boston Coolidges* but to Debussy she was just "the Saxophone Lady." He wrote...
...colonial Quincy, Mass. Its characters would be Puritans, Cavaliers, Indians; its themes, bigotry and a parson's conflict with his lustful soul. Critic Stokes asked Rochester's Howard Hanson if he would please write the music, submitted his scheme to the Metropolitan. Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza, knowing from experience with Composer Deems Taylor that critics are likely to be lenient with the efforts of their fellow critics, accepted the Hanson-Stokes opus when the music was scarcely begun...
...hours after John Erskine's announcement it appeared as though the Metropolitan had in desperation sold its independence, as though Mr. Erskine would hereafter be giving orders to Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza. People tried to withdraw their donations. They were informed that Mr. Erskine had given the wrong impression, that the Juilliard was contributing $50,000 and no more, that the Metropolitan's future next year still depended on the outcome of its campaign which, even with the Juilliard's, $50,000, had brought in only...
...Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the silent, Jovian man who for 25 years has sat in a musty back office guiding the affairs of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company, was given a party this week. His 200 singers sang for him. Oldtime Metropolitan stars returned to the stage to honor him.* Swayed by the wholehearted sentiment which opera-folk thrive on, the house fairly shook with shouts when the Metropolitan ballet shaped itself into a giant birthday cake, held up 25 candles. From his grandtier box Mr. Gatti gravely gave the Italian salute but no amount of persuasion would bring...
...years Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza made the performances pay for themselves. He even set aside 51,000,000 surplus. But that is exhausted now, although last year salaries were cut and the current season shortened from 24 to 16 weeks. A guarantee of $150,000 privately subscribed last spring has been eaten into badly. With box office receipts at their present low it was figured that even a season shortened to twelve weeks would require an extra $300,000 to see it through...