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...mysteries of the Metropolitan Opera Company has been its failure to engage Baritone John Charles Thomas, to reintroduce Tenor Paul Althouse. Last week Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza endeavored to make up for lost time. Baritone Thomas was ordered to get himself into tail coat and top hat and enact the worried parent in Traviata. Plump Tenor Althouse, who sang at the Met twelve years ago, was told to slip on a bearskin for Siegmund in Die Walkure...
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...
...Metropolitan planned to put on Merry Mount in 1932 but Composer Hanson had not finished with his music. It was scheduled then for last winter when hard times intervened and it was shelved again. Last week Manager Gatti-Casazza generously permitted the University of Michigan to steal a march on him. The world premiere of Merry Mount was given in Ann Arbor in concert form, climax of a four-day festival. Solemn as Supreme Court judges, University students sat behind a bench backstage to sing the Puritans' choral music. Ann Arbor's festival singers sat on the stage...
Metropolitan Opera singers helped impress Ann Arbor with Merry Mount's musical worth. Baritone John Charles Thomas, whom Manager Gatti lately engaged for next season, sang the heretic clergyman's music in a voice marvelously smooth and strong. Soprano Leonora Corona made a pneumatic Cavalier siren even in her formal, up-to-date evening dress. Demure Rose Bamplon was Plentiful Tewke, the Puritan maiden who was not quite tempting enough for Wrestling Bradford...