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...time and inclination for serious work. In 1923 he wrote his Rhapsody in Blue for Paul Whiteman's jazz-concert played in highbrow Aeolian Hall. The enthusiastic reception it got is now historic. Thereafter Gershwin wrote for a double audience. Some 18,000 people packed Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium when he played his works there. Walter Damrosch conducted Gershwin's Jazz Concerto in sanctified Carnegie Hall. The dazzling harmonics and crisp, slangy rhythms of his American in Paris pleased critics at home and abroad, as well as ballet troupes (see below...
...summer sun beat down into Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium last week upon a towheaded young woman who, whirling to the strains of a sweating, shirtsleeved orchestra, sang and danced passionately around a plaster head on a property platter until her feet hurt and print dress was damp and dusty. She was Erica Darbo, the Scandinavian soprano whose U. S. debut set Cincinnati agog last February in Strauss' Salome, rehearsing for her first New York appearance. The night of the performance, in costume and against a background of stars and sultry violet, Miss Darbo gained full credit...
...open its 20th season of concerts in the Lewisohn Stadium, the New York Philharmonic engaged enterprising Conductor Vladimir Golschmann of St. Louis and Violinist Albert Spalding as soloist, sold 15,000 tickets. Mrs. Charles S. Guggenheimer announced that $65,000 had been collected toward the $75,000 budget. Adolph Lewisohn, 88, who donated the $225,000 stadium, promised other conductors like Fritz Reiner, Willem Van Hoogstraten, Alexander Smallens, George King Raudenbush. The first week of the eight-week season was to feature Lily Pons singing three arias and Soprano Erica Darbo in an elaborate production of Strauss's Salome...
...York and Leverett House have been awarded Henry Fellowships of 500 pounds sterling each for study at Oxford University during the coming academic year, it was announced last night by the American Trustees of the Charles and Julia Henry Fund. The fellowships were established by Lady Julia Lewisohn Henry "in earnest hope and desire of cementing the bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States...
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