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Malcolm H. Holmes '28, conductor of the Pierian Sodality, will play the violin accompanied on the piano by Edward Ballantine '07, associate profesor of Music...
Honorary sponsors of the current tour which opens on Friday, December 24, include: Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Walter Damrosch, conductor emeritus. New York Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia orchestra, John Barbirolli conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony orchestra, and Werner Jannsen, conductor and composer...
...composers, he remains one of the very few highbrow U. S. musical figures whose names are known to the U. S. man in the street. Last week his five-year-old suite, Dark Dancers of the Mardi Gras, received its first public Manhattan performance by the Philharmonic-Symphony under Conductor John Barbirolli. Dark Dancers is pleasant, rhythmic, imitative, is not likely to achieve the popularity that sold over 1,500,000 copies of his song At Dawning, composed 20-odd years...
When veteran Conductor Walter Damrosch once asked a schoolchild who Charles Wakefield Cadman was, the child answered: "He's a great American Indian." Prior to 1915 Cadman spent some time among the Osages and Omahas, recording their music, lecturing on it, deriving themes from it. Two decades ago he turned from such ventures to the writing of opera, produced Shanewis, first U. S. opera to survive two seasons in the repertory of the Metropolitan Opera House, and A Witch of Salem, given by the Chicago Civic Opera Company. Then he turned to orchestral pieces and chamber music. An indefatigable...
Divorced. Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski, 55, since 1912 conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, now also conducting and acting for films (Big Broadcast of 1937, 100 Men and a Girl); by Evangeline Brewster Johnson Stokowski, daughter of the late Robert W. Johnson, surgical equipment manufacturer. Conductor Stokowski called rumors of a romance with Actress Greta Garbo "untrue and absurd...