Word: oratorio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, Artur Bodansky and the Friends of Music gave intelligent performance to Haydn's Seasons, a mellow, pastoral oratorio unheard in the U. S. for nearly 25 years. The evening before, the Conductorless Symphony (including nine women), introduced its second season...
Chautauqua. Last week Chautauqua Institute opened its 56th annual session on the shores of Chautauqua Lake, N. Y. Some 300 varied programs will be crowded into an eight-week season, including 41 symphony concerts, eight popular operas in English. Conductor: Albert Frederic Stoessel of Manhattan's Oratorio Society...
Cincinnati, May 7-11, Biennial May Music Festival, Frederick Stock musical director; Cincinnati Symphony and such soloists as Florence Austral, Schumann-Heink, Paul Althouse, Dan Beddoe, Lawrence Tibbett in such works as Mendelssohn's St. Paul (oratorio), Bach's Magnificat, and a Wagner program...
Familiar indeed are Damrosch faces. There was Dr. Leopold first, a German Jew who fathered them all along with the Oratorio and Symphony Societies of New York. There are his four children-Teacher Frank (head of the Institute of Musical Art, now associated with the Juilliard Foundation); Pianist Clara, married to Violinist David Mannes and running with him the Mannes School of Music; Pianist Elizabeth (Mrs. Henry T. Seymour); Conductor Walter; Conductor Walter's wife who was Margaret Blaine, daughter of the late Senator James G. Blaine; Conductor Walter's four daughters-Alice (Mrs. Pleasants Pennington), Gretchen...
...clubs will be Ethyl Hayden, soprano, and Tudor Davies, tenor. The narrator, who takes a part similar to that in "Oedipus Rex" will be Paul Leyssac of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre in New York, who was the narrator in M. Koussevirzky's production of that opera oratorio...