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With its Civic Opera disbanded, Chicago has little hope for opera of the old-time high excellence next season. Nevertheless it may have more in point of quantity. For several weeks Alfredo Salmaggi, showman-maestro, has been running an Open Air Opera Company in Soldier Field; last week he put on a well- publicized Carmen, with tame bulls from the stockyards. One winter possibility is twelve weeks of opera, to be performed by a semi-co-operative troupe under Conductor Isaac Van Grove of the Cincinnati Zoo Opera, formerly assistant conductor of Chicago's Civic Opera. This would...
...Prentiss Hughes, and who secured for it last year its fine new home, Severance Hall (TIME, Feb. 16, 1931). Last week Nikolai Sokoloff, summering in Westport, Conn., was looking forward to next winter's 15th orchestra season; but he could not look forward to being Cleveland's maestro after May 31, 1933. The Cleveland Orchestra Company had failed to renew its contract with Founder Sokoloff, previously engaged for five-year periods...
...every summer in many a U. S. stadium. Biggest and most pompous ever was Cleveland's last summer, in which more than 1,000 performers (including the animals) figured (TIME, Aug. 10). Washington had an Aïda last fortnight, presented by that seasoned Aïda-man, Maestro Alfredo Salmaggi. In New York's big Polo Grounds Maestro Salmaggi presented successive null at $1 top price, culminating in 1930 with one in which there were elephants as well as camels and horses (TIME, July 28,1930). Aiming to exploit music "on a basis consistent with the dignity...
Louis Armstrong, maestro of jazz, would be a good subject for one of his own songs-a black rascal raised in a waifs' home, whose first real job was playing on a Mississippi steamboat; a headliner unimpressed by contracts, with a jail sentence in his past for using drugs. Okeh, a subsidiary of Columbia Phonograph Co., knows all this. So does Victor Talking Machine but just the same they were fighting last week over Louis Armstrong. The courts in California were going to have to decide whether he was bound to go on making Okeh records for another year...
...denied him because it made him rowdy. Consolation he finds "by coming here and reminding myself that, while my sorrow is real enough now, all I should have to do would be to take a thimbleful of wine and it would be gone." Touched to the heart the Maestro leans over to him, whispers: "Excuse me, but won't you at least permit me to brush that fly off your forehead...