Word: stucken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's Festival in no way let down Cincinnati's high traditions. The programs were for the most part ambitious and substantial. Brahms's great German Requiem came first in honor of the late Frank van der Stucken who for many years directed the Festival. Of the soloists, two from England made promising U. S. debuts-Tenor Walter Widdop and Contralto Muriel Brunkskill. Lily Pons, the Metropolitan's new French find, walked away with a program on which she sang three florid coloratura airs. But the hero for the duration of the five day Festival...
...members: Novelist Edith Wharton (second female to be elected, the first having been Poetess Julia Ward Howe, who died in 1910), Poet Robert Frost, Professor Irving Babbitt, Sculptor George Grey Barnard, Biographer James Truslow Adams; taking places left vacant by the deaths of Thomas Hastings, Frank V. van der Stucken, Arthur Twining Hadley, Brander Matthews, George Edward Woodberry. Corresponding members elected were Poet Sir William Watson, Poet Laureate John Masefield...