Word: musician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walter Johannes Damrosch was born in Breslau, Silesia, in 1862. Aged nine, he migrated to Manhattan. Dr. Leopold Damrosch, his father, was a musician of note, and in Walter's youth, Wagner, Liszt, von Bulow, Ruyer, Rubinstein visited his home. At 14 his father let him appear in his orchestra at the performance of an operetta but Walter was too nervous to life the cymbals. Nevertheless at 23 he became conductor of the N. Y. Symphony Society-at a time when there were only three symphony orchestras in the U. S. -the New York and Boston Symphonies...
...Newman's work is well and entertainingly written, with a wealth of scholarship and a shrewd insight. He is never carried away by his theme, always preserves a just sense of proportion. And his inspection of the great musician's personal idiosyncrasies is far from devoid of a sly humor...
...Rabinoff, the well-known musician will speak this afternoon at 5 o'clock in the Glee Club Room of the Music Building. He will talk informally on "The Founding and the Aims of the Stony Point School of American Opera." All members of the University are invited...
...Koussevitzky Americans see a musician brought up upon Mozart, Beethovan, Wagner, Chopin, who ought, to their way of thinking, oppose jazz music in mortal combat. With Americans it is the rule that only those to whom the wall of saxophones, the blare of trombones, and the clash of brass are indigenous, can see in jazz anything but degenerate sensuality. Not so Koussevitzky. Without forsaking the classics, he calls jazz "good music". So pronounced became his modern tendencies that Moscow thought him too radical, and he left Russia. But he went, not to Paris, where he was indeed invited...
...France, he was famed as a hunter after talent and a friend of young composers. He introduced Paris to the works of several excelIent musician, hitherto unheard-of; his wife, known as one of the most charming women in Moscow, shared this interest. To her were dedicated the works of such young Russians as Scriabin and Stravinsky. With bread and meat she fed the inspiration of more than one hungry genius who discovered, during the War, that Art was long and food was short...