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Three years ago Musical America offered a $3,000 prize for the best symphonic work to be composed by an American. The judges were Conductors Walter Damrosch, Leopold Stokowski, Alfred Hertz, Frederick Stock, Serge Koussevitzky, and they chose unanimously from 92 scores an "epic rhapsody" called America by Ernest Block That the prize-winning music was by Bloch, who is considered by many the foremost U. S. composer, and that so distinguished an array of judges had professed themselves enthusiatic and promised, each one, to give America an early performance, combined to arouse more interest than could any blatant heralding...
...well-informed on musical matters know him as a musician of outstanding merit whose littlest interpretations are fraught with beauty. So it was last week that Philadelphia greeted him cordially, even as he stood on the throne of so great a god as Leopold Stokowski, away now on his mid-season holiday; and that Manhattan paid him like honor when he brought the Philadelphia Orchestra there...
From Paris came roundabout word that Boston Symphony trustees have extended Conductor Serge Koussevitzky's contract indefinitely. The salary, it is said, "exceeds all expectations." Presumably it elevates Conductor Koussevitzky to a financial status comparable with that of Arturo Toscanini (New York Philharmonic Symphony) and Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski (Philadelphia Orchestra...
With a Baltimore store, Thomas Fortune Ryan went to work as an errand-boy for $3 a week; with William Collins Whitney he was a broker in Wall Street; with King Leopold II of Belgium he developed the diamond fields of the Congo Free State; and with a fortune estimated between one and five hundred million dollars, last week, he died...
...fought the Seaboard Air Line Railway until he beat it and he helped launch the Southern Railway. In one of his most notable financial prodigies, the organization of the American Tobacco Co., with which he gained a two-thirds interest in the foreign market, he was comparatively alone. King Leopold II asked him for help in exploiting African diamond mines; and in rooms where chandeliers sparkled dimly like uncut diamonds, Thomas Fortune Ryan sat and talked with Harry Payne Whitney, Daniel Guggenheim and John Hays Hammond, persuading them to share this spectacular venture...