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...only woman opera impresario in the world last week launched the freshest, most bumptious U.S. opera troupe on its second Manhattan season. The impresario is Hungarian-born Yolanda Mero-lrion of the youthful New Opera Company. For openers, Impresario Irion chose The Opera Cloak, Walter Damrosch's latest one-acter, and The Fair at Sorochinsk, a rollicking opus by Russia's rum-nosed Immortal, Modeste Moussorgsky. Eighty-year-old Composer Damrosch conducted his curtain raiser without drowning out the audience's spirited conversation. But for The Fair at Sorochinsk, they sat up, shut up and pounded their...
...respective groups. Tie votes are broken by deliberation of a committee which includes American Legion Auxiliary Radio Committee Chairman Mrs. William H. Corwith, Child Study Association's Miss Josette Frank, former W. N. R. C. Chairman Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan and W. N. R. C. Chairman Mme Yolanda Mero-Irion...
Retired Concert Pianist Mero-Irion founded the W. N. R. C., originated the idea of the Sealtest Rising Musical Star series, which her committee graciously commended under not one but two categories for its music and good taste in advertising. Her aim is to make newsboys whistle strains from Aïda. She storms at what she considers the state of radio broadcasting, loathes crime stories, poorly performed music, women baritones, precocious child artists, true story programs, advertisers who coax children to eat their products, amateur hours...
...York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by William van Hoogstraten, brilliant conductor heard here to advantage last autumn in Tschaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony. The programme embraces Beethovea's Symphony No. 3 the "Erolea,"--Strausa's Salome's Dance and "Til Eulenspiegel," and Tschaikovsky's Second Piano Concerto with Yolanda Mero playing the solo part...
Sunday afternoon in Symphony Hall, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Mr. van Hoogstraten, will play Strauss's "Till Eulenspiegel" and "Salome's Dance", Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony and Tschaikovsky's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, No. 2, with Yolanda Mero, well known pianiste, playing the solo part. Mr. van Hoopstraten gave a notable reading here last autumn of the "Pathetique" Symphony, the first concert of the Steinert series...