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...Temple of Chamber Music" at South Mountain, Pittsfield, Mass. Eight concerts were heard on successive Sunday afternoons, the last taking place on Aug. 31. The event was made possible by the financial devotion of Mrs. F. S. Coolidge, a real patroness, and by the artistic devotion of Maestro Willem Willeke, a real musician...
...this as it may, Maestro Mascagni remains discussed abroad. Inundated under wreaths, well-nigh buried in bouquets, he last week responded 100 times to the frenetic applause of a Vienna audience which heard him conduct Verdi's Aida. The performance was given in the huge amphitheatre, scene of numerous sporting events. On the stage were 2,000 musicians, singers, dancers-Italians; in the audience were 20,000 listeners-Austrians. Without imposing a defeat, the former scored a victory, orderly, harmonious. In this azione, were cast the finest singers of a honey-throated nation. Signora Poli-Randaccio was Aida, brought...
...Maestro Fritz Busch, General Director of the Dresden Opera House, led the orchestra, which was said to have "glowed like a colorful piece of tapestry." Though the bulk of the audience was German middleclass, former Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria and General Ludendorff glittered in the Wagner box. There, too, were Hugh Walpole, English author, and Count Albert Apponyi, towering Hungarian. Parsifal, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, other masterpieces followed...
...size. The theatre will be of Greek or open-air type. Seats will be provided for 600, but 12,000 to 15,000 more will be able to watch the performances from the adjacent grassy slopes. There will also be dormitories and a library of music and folklore. Maestro Rabinoff, who lives nearby, has already built the "largest scenic studio in the world" on the spot. Here have been painted several of those canvases which subsequently flapped so merrily in the backstage breezes of the Metropolitan...
...advanced students of Music who have shown decided promise. The Juilliard fellows journeyed gaily to Paris, Rome, Berlin, Vienna, inhaled the artistic atmosphere, drenched themselves in strong aesthetic traditions, acquired a priceless joie de vivre. Also, there were champagne, liqueurs and sometimes instruction at the feet of a foreign Maestro...