Word: vladimir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vladimir Rosing, artistic director of the American Opera Company, will speak at 10 o'clock this morning in the Music Building, and also at 12 o'clock tomorrow, it was announced yesterday by Professor E. B. Hill '94 of the Music Department, who is honorary chairman of the committee promoting the movement in Boston for presenting operas in English...
...entirely of young American singers trained in this country. For "Faust". Robert Simon has prepared a skillfully adapted libretto, while for the other operas English versions have been carefully, through less originally, made. With each piece the singing players seek equally the dramatic values of text, action and song. Vladimir Rosing, as stage director, is the author of these courses. The conductor is Frank St. Leger, formerly of the Chicago Civic Opera Company and of Convent Garden, London. These two men have worked with the company since last summer and have themselves prepared the entire repertoire...
...Juliet?and the maneuvers on the stage were forgotten for the results they attained. Sir Thomas the showman had become Sir Thomas the poet. True, he lapsed a little in the Tschaikowsky B Flat Minor Concerto, but then the Concerto with all its noisy trappings was for Pianist Vladimir Horowitz*, and served him accordingly. Sir Thomas came back with Mozart's C Major Symphony, Berlioz' Chasse Royale et I'Orage, Wagner's Meistersinger overture. The audience stayed long after he was through, cheered him, regretted unanimously that he was to conduct only four concerts...
...opening night of the American Opera Co. at Poli's Theatre (see Music, p. 22, for a further account). President Coolidge had been pleased to greet all the singers at the White House earlier in the day. He stayed through their whole performance and complimented Director Vladimir Rosing on how smoothly everything went. The box in which the President sat was that of Mrs. Joseph Leiter, outstanding capital hostess.* After the opera, President and Mrs. Coolidge went home, while Mrs. Leiter welcomed the American Opera Company at a party vivified by her bounteous stores of champagne...
...genius back of it all was Vladimir Rosing, who five years ago was no more than a good tenor. He was returning then to Europe after engagements in the U. S. and in the crossing he met George Eastman, rich kodakman of Rochester, N. Y. There were many hours to spare aboard ship. Mr. Eastman's hobby was music and Tenor Rosing had time to talk of his ideal to produce opera for English-speaking audiences in their own language. Mr. Eastman listened well, tucked it all away in the corner of his mind. That summer Tenor Rosing received...