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After the performance Conductor Albert Stoessel gave the collaborators medals from the American Opera Society of Chicago. Engraved on each was a message wishing "the continued success of such a fine work for the great cause of American musical...
Vilma Foerster Renate Mueller Arvai, Director of the Bank Hermann Thimig Hasel, a Bank Clerk Felix Bressart Klapper, Head of the Bank's Employment Department Ludwig Stoessel Boarding House Matron Gertrude Wolle...
...Club "presents a program of noted character. Its outstanding event for 1933 was its reception to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, when 6,000 persons were present." Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle is the "oldest book club in America today." Chautauqua music lovers hear their own symphony conducted by Albert Stoessel. a Little Symphony conducted by Georges Barrere, solos and lectures by Ernest Hutcheson, John Erskine, many another. Plays presented by the Cleveland Playhouse included last year Hay Fever, Twelfth Night, There's Always Juliet. Walter Hagen described Chautauqua's 18-hole golf course as "one of the best...
Soprano Fleischer had had a disagreement with Festival Conductor Albert Stoessel at a morning rehearsal. She had objected to the local accompanist provided for her, asked to have summoned from Manhattan little Kurt Ruhrseitz, her coach at the Metropolitan Opera House. Pianist Ruhrseitz arrived but by performance time Soprano Fleischer was missing. Festival directors searched widely for her, finally attributed her disappearance to temperament, proceeded with the concert without her. The directors should have known better. If Soprano Fleischer has flights of "temperament" she never shows them. After the concert she was discovered ia her hotel room (she had engaged...
Modern, colorful, technically difficult, Jack and the Beanstalk is announced as an "all-American" opera. Its young singers and Conductor Albert Stoessel are U. S.-born; Composer Gruenberg is nearly native. Born in Russia 48 years ago, he arrived in the U. S. at the age of two, has lived there since save when traveling and studying in Europe under the late great Pianist Ferruccio Busoni. In 1921 he won Philanthropist Harry Harkness Flagler's $1.000 prize with Hill of Dreams for orchestra; last year he was one of the winners of the Victor symphonic award...