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...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. Now the annual concerts in Mechanics Hall are rewarded with increasing enthusiasm. Orchestral numbers, choruses and solos won high praise last week. Outstanding feature came at the second concert when prodigious Ruggiero Ricci, aged 9, played his violin in Mendelssohn's E Minor Concerto. Because of pending litigation between...
Chautauqua. Last week Chautauqua Institute opened its 56th annual session on the shores of Chautauqua Lake, N. Y. Some 300 varied programs will be crowded into an eight-week season, including 41 symphony concerts, eight popular operas in English. Conductor: Albert Frederic Stoessel of Manhattan's Oratorio Society...
White Plains, N. Y., May 9-11, Westchester Festival, Albert Stoessel, musical director; community choral singing featured...
Last week Dean Hutcheson offered further encouragement: There will be a string orchestra composed of Juilliard students to be trained by Albert Stoessel, director of music at New York University and conductor of the New York Oratorio Society-an organization which may in time come to play as important a part in the musical life of the community as the orchestra of the Paris Conservatoire; there will be three concerts this winter with soloists chosen by Madame Marcella Sembrich from the best vocal students. Leopold Auer, famed violinist and teacher of such musicians as Jascha Heifetz, and Efrem Zimbalist, will...
...soprano; by Jeanne Laval, contralto; the Elijah of Baritone Louis Gravewre, celebrating his tenth anniversary in the role with a performance well below his usual excellent standard; Septuagenarian Dan Beddoe, greatest of all oratorio tenors at his very best; voluminous but monstrous choral work under the leadership of Albert Stoessel...