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Thanks to a printer, a carpetmaker, a banker and a conductor, Worcester, Mass, (famed for machinery, wire and textile manufacturies) was treated last week to its 71st festival of music. Six years ago New England's oldest festival threatened to snuff out for lack of financial support. President Hamilton B. Wood of Commonwealth Press, a dabbler in musical composition, became indignant at the prospect. He won the support of keen Carpetmaker Matthew P. Whittall and Treasurer Harrison G. Taylor of the local Five Cents Savings Bank. Together these three canvassed the city for subscriptions, engaged Conductor Albert Stoessel...
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...when Franz Joseph Haydn's Farewell symphony had its first performance before Hungarian Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, some one had the idea of keeping the audience in darkness, giving each musician a candle of his own to snuff at the concert's close. In Cincinnati Conductor Fritz Reiner often exhibits a penchant for the historical.* Last week he attempted to duplicate the first candlelit concert but modernized methods boggled the illusion. The candles were electric, behaved accordingly. 'Cellist Desire Danczowski's flame flickered, threatened to quit before the end; 'Cellist Walter Hermann's balked when...
This is the legend which appealed most strongly to Poet Lorenzo da Ponte when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart asked him for an operatic subject.* Da Ponte was busy at the time with commissions from Emperor Joseph II, but working furiously, inspired by snuff, Tokay and his landlady's 16-year-old daughter, he wrote the libretto for which Mozart, writing notes with the same prodigality, composed the music of the opera known as Don Giovanni...