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...agreed: more encouragement would be given to U. S. singers and composers; Juilliard students would be permitted to attend rehearsals; a supplementary season of opera-comique would be given in which Juilliard students would presumably play the important parts; the opera Merry Mount by Richard Leroy Stokes and Howard Hanson would surely be produced...
...first concert were his ample, domestic wife and pretty daughter Wanda, who on request often gets out a tiny mustache and does uproarious imitations of her famed father. On the stage at intermission a lanky outsider shared bows with Toscanini. The guest was Composer Howard Hanson, down from Rochester to hear his Romantic Symphony played by Toscanini for the first time...
True to its name Howard Hanson's new symphony struck no harsh, debatable notes. He attempted to put his listeners in a mellow, tolerant mood when he de scribed it in the program as an "escape from the rather bitter type of modern musical realism which occupies so large a place in contemporary thought." He had used melodies which were conventionally sweet. His horns sang out politely over tremulous violins. Critics were not impressed but the bulk of the audience was far more enthusiastic than it had been over the stark, sardonic symphony of Bernard Wagenaar, played earlier...
...seven years that he has conducted the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Toscanini has presented music by only four U. S. composers.* But Composer Hanson's name was made long before Tosanini honored him. At 20, a greenhorn from Wahoo, Neb., he was made a full-fledged professor at the College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif. From there he went to Rome on an American Academy fellowship, grew his spindling little beard when he was invited to conduct the famed Augusteo Orchestra...
...Dees, Crystal Springs, Miss.; J. H. Denison, Jr., New York, N.Y.; A. I. Dixon, Reading, Mass.; W. E. Dodd, Jr., Chicago, Ill; M. A. Dolliver, Manset, Me.; J. W. R. Dow, Chicago, Ill.; W. A. Fowlie, Brookline, Mass.; A. R. Fulton, Geneva, N.Y.; W. C. Gutterson, Weymouth, Mass.; Miles Hanson, Jr., Weston, Mass.; S. G. Hanson, Winooski, Vt.; C. H. Hapgood, Winchester, N.H.; Eric Hartmann, Springfield, Mass.; Jack Hexter, Cincinnati, Ohio; F. E. Sears, Jr., Concord, N. H.; Morrison Sharp, Hingham, Mass.; C. E. Smith, Cambridge, Mass.; W. R. Smith, Jamaica Plain, Mass.; G. R. Steue, Williamsburg, Mass...