Word: piano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even at the age of 14, he pioneered. With Gustav Schirmer, son of the publisher, he built a miniature stage, painted Rhine Valley scenery, peopled it with marionettes. The stage was set in the Damrosch parlor. While Gustav manipulated the Rhine maidens, Walter played the music on the piano. Thus was Richard Wagner's Rheingold produced for the first time in the U. S., (before the Schirmer and Damrosch families, admission 50c). Nine years later, Leopold Damrosch, noted German conductor, died. Walter succeeded his father as conductor of the New York Symphony, the Oratorio Society, the Metropolitan Opera...
Theodore Steinway, piano maker:* "Last week two post cards, mailed simultaneously last October, reached the Collectors' Club, Manhattan, after a haste-post-haste trip in opposite directions around the world. My card, bearing a picture of Governor Smith, arrived first, after a westbound trip to San Francisco, Tokyo, London. The other card, mailed by Hugh Clark, stamp collector, bore a picture of President Coolidge, and arrived four hours later in Manhattan, after an eastbound trip to London, Tokyo, San Francisco...
Miss Ethel Leginsk3 conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra will feature the program of the annual Pierian Sodality concert and dance in Brattle Hall at 8.15 o'clock tonight. Miss Leginsk3 will conduct two number; "Mar the Hongroise," why Berilcz, and Grieg's "Korrzett" for orchestra and piano...
Soloists at the concert will be P. R. Diederich '28 on the violin; A. A. LanDors '28 at the piano and S. W. Burbank '29 on the nyionlone...
...power which makes for life in a piece of music without attendant loss in its character. Of the program, two numbers chosen from a large group of excellent compositions, seem to deserves especial mention the concrete of Grieg and the Marche Hongroise of Berlioz. Grieg's work, concrete for piano and orchestra of which only the first of the three movements will be played, contains passages of the greatest beauty, particularly in the duets between the piano and oboe and the contrasts between the strings and the piano. It is a work which has not been played in Boston...