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Thereafter Salmaggi presented opera at Manhattan's Polo Grounds, Akron's dirigible hangar, Chicago's Soldier Field, Washington's Griffith Stadium, the open-air stadium at Randall's Island, N.Y. At one Polo Grounds Aïda, a Manhattan stable refused Salmaggi's check for the use of its elephants, camels and horses, walked them out the center aisle during the performance. Salmaggi shrugged philosophically. He had advertised elephants and camels, and the audience had seen them...
...Carnegie Hall bar and Joe Romano's Restaurant around the corner, many an oldtimer with a battered fiddle case shook his head sadly over his beer. Summer was over for the Philharmonic orchestra; it had been about as quiet as a monsoon. The open-air season at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium had piled up the largest deficit in the orchestra's 25-year history, most of which is written in red ink. Dimmed out as an air-raid precaution, the outdoor stadium had been plagued nightly by the whir of airplane motors. A bolt of lightning...
What coughers in the audience are to indoor concerts, honking horns, backfire, the drone of airplanes, the crash of thunder and squirpling crickets are to summer concerts. Most audiences and musicians have learned to take such incidental orchestration in their stride. But at Vancouver B.C.'s open-air pavilion, Baritone John Charles Thomas encountered one alfresco sound too many-a persistent bullfrog in a nearby pond. Every time Baritone Thomas began to sing, the bullfrog answered. Thomas hit a low note, the bullfrog followed him. At last Thomas was about ready to holler "Uncle." Before he began his next...
...Edwin Franko Goldman, No. 1 U.S. bandmaster, celebrating his silver jubilee last week. For the 25th summer in a row he was conducting his band in Manhattan's Central Park, in a nightly series of free open-air concerts...
...swell his repertory, Goldman has composed 85 marches himself. Most popular of his marches is On the Mall. Written for the dedication of a new bandstand in Central Park, it so displeased Goldman that he shelved it. When he finally tried it out at an open-air concert, he directed with one hand, held his nose with the other. The roar of applause so surprised him that he nearly reeled off the stand...