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...public wanted more concerts, but the directors were deaf even to the pleas of the charming Leginska, who had been canvassing for subscriptions. Would the People's Symphony survive the crisis? That question was answered last week by the announcement that there would be next season a new orchestra???its 100-odd members to be drawn from the old?to be known as the Boston Philharmonic, Ethel Leginska its permanent conductor...
...season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, breathed its last, and songsters, scenery, dancers and orchestra???enough to fill some 30 Pullman cars?were packed off on two special trains for Atlanta* for the annual week of opera. Southerners socially and musically inclined were ready for them, flocked from all over the countryside to hear Aida, with Rosa Ponselle and Giovanni Martinelli; Don Quichotte, with Feodor Chaliapin; La Bohême, with Lucrezia Bori, Beniamino Gigli, Antonio Scotti; Pagliacci, with Mary Lewis, Armand Tokatyan, Lawrence Tibbett; Jewels of the Madonna, with Florence Easton and Martinelli; Lucia, with Marion Talley; Tannhauser, with Rudolf...
...thought, for a cigar puff or two, of widely separated and irrelevant things?of the year he served in the German Army in the early eighties?;-of what Roosevelt once said of him*?of the fact that his son, Roger Wolff Kahn, has organized a very successful jazz orchestra???of the respectful way in which the press is beginning to call him "America's Foremost Patron of tre Arts." Or he might have thought, not without satisfaction, of the banking career whose compact pattern knits these scattered salients. Formerly cashier in a bank in Carlsruhe, Germany, later Vice President...
...qualified to speak, for during my stay here I have only been out of New York once, and that to hear an orchestra???the Philadelphia? that I had already heard here. I should have liked to hear the Chicago, the Detroit, the St. Louis and the Cleveland orchestras, but it has proved impossible. I have very scanty data to go upon even as regards the New York orchestras and the only two visiting organizations I have heard?the Philadelphia and the Boston Symphony...
...Friday afternoon, years ago, the Boston Symphony Orchestra???Dr. Muck at the wheel?played Chabrier's rhapsody, Espana?brilliant, flaming. The audience roared approbation, kept on roaring. Dr. Muck looked worried. He turned back the page of the score, looked at the audience, look at the orchestra. Plainly they wanted the piece again. Plainly he wanted to give it to them. But precedent ? sacred precedent ? forbade repetition. Dr. Muck's courage failed him. After all, Boston was Boston. He went on to the next number...
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