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...bulgy man stepped of the S.S. Rotterdam in Manhattan last week, faced a battery of cameras, obligingly revealed a shock of springy red hair, grinned far into his freckled cheeks and quickly left the pier. No customs officers molested his baggage, no questions were asked, for he was Josef Willem Mengelberg,* high man in Holland, come once more with diplomatic passport to conduct the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Pressmen followed him, asked hurriedly of concerts abroad, of his villa in Switzerland (with its five subcellars), learned that he had held seance with Conductor Arturo Toscanini at Lake Como, discussed with...
...work of: Eugene O'Neill, John Dos Passos, Ernest Heminway, Robert Hillyer, William Ellery Leonard, Louis Untermeyer, Witter Bynner, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and others. This is the first year book of American literature and is highly recommended by Carl Van Doren, Elinor Wylie, Glenn Frank, Zona Gale and Hendrick Willem Van Loon...
Philharmonic Conductors. The first part of the New York Philharmonic season (Oct. 13 to Jan. 8) will be conducted by Josef Willem Mengelberg. The latter part (Jan. 26 to April 1) by Arturo Toscanini. The interval will be given over to two guest conductors, Sir Thomas Beecham, England, and Bernardino Molinari, Rome...
...many echoes of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh's heroism, not the least sincere is the symphonic portrayal, We, composed by James Philip Dunn of Jersey City, N. J. At City College, Manhattan, where the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra under Willem van Hoogstraten plays nightly to music lovers in the summer, We last week had its premiere...
Last week Arthur Judson, manager, announced six guest conductors of international reputation: Fritz Reiner (Cincinnati Symphony), Ossip Gabrilowitsch (Detroit Symphony), Willem Mengelberg (New York Philharmonic), Frederick Stock (Chicago Symphony), Sir Thomas Beecham (London Symphony), Pierre Monteux (onetime of the Boston Symphony...