Word: music
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Metropolitan Opera House. Ten thousand persons battled for admission. Standing room soared to $25. Mounted police handled the crowds outside. Within the old red and gold auditorium, humped in an inconspicuous seat, waited General Manager Gatti-Casazza. sphinxlike, beard sunk deep on his chest, pondering the ways of music in the U. S. Up in his box, sleek, important, pleased, sat the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Otto H. Kahn. And in that over-stuffed audience were heard the boastings of the Mayor and 200 citizens of Kansas City who had paid $50,000 for a special train...
Unheeded in the roar, buried in the shuffle, music critics bent uneasily over their typewriters. Lost in back pages were the reviews, flashing such signals as "immature talent" . . . "further training" . . . "promise." Three years later nothing had happened to alter those words...
...last and real love had died. He had lost his devoted mother. He had a permanent quarrel with his brother. He had had financial collapse, humiliating work as a government clerk at small pay in the department of woods and forests-worst of all, lack of recognition for his music. Final blow: his life-child, the opera Boris Godonnov, tragic and powerful story of a guilty Tsar, a work loved by the people, rejected by the critics, had been taken out of the repertoire of the famed Marie Theatre and never again performed during his life. Drugs and cognac were...
...possibilities. Often the first player of an instrument will wish to conduct. This will result not only in giving him the experience he desires but in enabling the second player to play first and the third player to play the second instrument. Thus all will gain in experience." Disinterested music-lovers eyed the experiment with interest. Philadelphians whispered that it was only a gesture by a haughty man, that Conductor Stokowski's orchestra was rising at last against his regime and this was his way of "making character." Stokowski is supposed to have remarked on the occasion which resulted...
...music will be furnished by two organizations, Roy, Lamson's Harvardians and Bert Lowe's Hotel Statler orchestra, the latter assisted by Billy Lossez. These played at the celebration last year, and their success assured their re-engagement this spring...