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...brusquely, told them Launcelot was romantic in conception-therefore in the tradition of all true opera-that he had little sympathy with jazz, cacophony, dissonances, or other "modernistic" effects. Yes, he had been conducting in London, Berlin, Paris the past year; he was pleased with the reception of his one-act opera Samuel Pepys in Munich; his new opera Asshurbanipal is scheduled for Berlin next season. He will go to Russia in November for two months as director of the Moscow Opera. If he likes it there, he may stay permanently. Then Conductor Coates began talking impetuously of something that...
...summer concert programs (13th season) is the Philharmonic-Symphony series held in Lewisohn Stadium. Notable on the program of eight weeks will be the "Launcelot" symphony of Albert Coates, conductor of the London Symphony, which will be given its premiere under his baton. Composer Coates, whose one-act opera Samuel Pepys took musical Munich by storm last winter (TIME, Jan. 6), will conduct during the fourth, fifth and sixth weeks; Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten of the Portland (Ore.) Symphony Orchestra, the first three and last two. First-nighters last week flocked to hear, not Wagner, not Strauss, not Tchaikovsky, though...
...Manhattan's Waldorf Theatre all last week, every night was amateur night. Occasion: the eighth annual Little Theatre Tournament, held under the aegis of Producer David Belasco. After 20 one-act presentations had been performed by amateurs from Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, St. Louis, Albany, Providence, Buffalo, Starkville (Miss.) and Goldsboro (N. C), the following survived for the final round...
...LAST MILE?A frightening one-act play in the death house to which two acts of sure-fire melodrama are added...
...program included a one-act play depicting the founding of the Society, a pageant of engineering progress written by Yale's George Pierce Baker, dozens of speeches, the presentation of a score of medals...