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...Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, composer,* the masculinity of the London Symphony Orchestra is a "silly pity." Said Dame Smyth (to a Boston Transcript reporter) a fortnight...
...Daughter of the late General J. H. Smyth, she is the composer of two symphonies, an overture to Antony and Cleopatra, a mass, the operas Fantasia, Der Wald, The Wreckers, The Boatswain's Mate, a string-quartette, four orchestral songs and some suffrage music...
...been in a concert hall; brilliantly he conducted a rare Andante of Mozart's, an unfamiliar suite by Pur- cell, the first Los Angeles performance of three movements from The Planets by Gustav Hoist. Sir Henry had been encouraged to give some modern English music; he chose Ethel Smyth's On the Cliffs of Cornwall, a scene from The Immortal Hour of Rutland Boughton...
Even Thackeray, most generally known by the grave morality of Vanity Fair, did not seem to disdain a coarser style in his personal correspondence. There is a letter in the collection addressed to one Carmichael Smyth, giving the news of Thackeray's return to England. The author has illustrated it with a most unusual cartoon depicting a family lying in various stages of unconciousness about a parlor. He explained in the letter, that the scene is his idea of the reaction of Mr. Smyth's family to the unexpected news, and represents mother having hysterics, sister falling off the piano...
...Lundell, J. S. Malick, C. G. Wright, E. C. Haggerty, H. L. Smyth, B. E. Swede, J. J. Weinstein, J. W. Brown, Franklin Hollis, Morton Smith, B. L. Kilgour, H. F. Mills, A. H. Miller, Robert Soutter, J. C. Bickford, manager, S. E. Gleason, assistant manager...