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Friday Evening, May 11 *Triumphal March from "Aida"Verdi *Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssonn *"Madame Butterfly," Fantasia Puccini *Nocturne: "Festivals" Debussy *Overture to "Rieuzi" Wagner Chorus and Orchestra: The Snow Elgar Carnaval Fourdrain *"The Fortune Teller," Selection Herbert "People of Vienna" Ziehrer *First Hungarian Dance Brahras Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...Pomp and Circumstance Elgar *"The Bartered Bride," Overture Smetana "Whispering Flowers" Blon *"Aida," Fantasia Verdi *"Finlandia," Symphonic Poem Sibelius *Prelude to "The Deluge" Saint-Saens Violin Solo: J. Theodorowicz *"The Cid," Suite Massenet *Victor Herbert Favorites Arranged by Sanford *"Roses from the South," Waltz Strauss *Bacchanale, "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens...
...full swing, with an average attendance of 4,000 a night (capacity: 5,000). Pasquale Amato, genial oldtime Metropolitan baritone, had supplanted Salmaggi as artistic director. Salmaggi had tried to compete at the Broadway Theatre a few blocks away. Both had the same standard repertory in which Verdi predominated. But last week Amato played the deciding trump when he engaged 40 Metropolitan choristers, 40 Metropolitan orchestramen, made an honest bargain out of 99? opera...
...replies at their professional headquarters but the maestro's mail has become his consuming interest. He cuts engagements short, rushes home between rehearsals to see if more letters have come. Those he receives he spreads out on his cherished piano, hitherto sacred to his mementoes of Wagner and Verdi. In a Manhattan court appeared thread bare Emma Swift Hammerstein, 51, third wife of the late Oscar Hammerstein, to sue Arthur Hammerstein, her unfriendly stepson, for nonsupport. Four years ago when she was found guilty of vagabondage, Mr. Hammerstein offered to support her for life if she would leave...
Alfredo Salmaggi is a long-haired Italian who wherever he goes carries a silver-topped cane which belonged to Caruso and loves to tell about the days when he taught Italy's Queen Margherita to play the mandolin. Salmaggi has an Aïda complex. He has given Verdi's spectacular opera in Egypt at the foot of the pyramids, in Mexico City's bull ring, in dozens of open-air stadiums. He uses elephants, camels, horses. The Hippodrome venture started out as an all-Aïda affair. Some 10,000 passes were given...