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Still treating rumors of her marriage to air-minded Conductor Andre Kostelanetz as a big joke. Diva Lily Poas avowed: "In five years I quit the stage. I quit my music so I can plant my garden, so I can milk...
...Incoronazione di Poppea, an antique forerunner of modern opera, composed by Claudio Monteverdi and given its debut in Venice in 1642. The work has been reconstructed from its fragmentary original score by Ernst Krenek, best known in the U. S. for his jazz opera Jonny Spielt Anf, and as conductor of the Monteverdi work making his first visit...
...Chicago Woman's Symphony Orchestra thus opened its twelfth season last week, a lone man led it. Swallow-tailed against a gowny background, Conductor Frank St. Leger, radio director (American Radiator Co.'s Fireside Recitals), put the ladies through their paces. Watching him from an orchestra seat sat the woman who had been the symphony's conductor for eight years, and last week was so no longer -hard-working, blonde Ebba Sundstrom...
Chicago critics have often been polite to the Woman's Symphony but its performing ranks have seethed with jealousy, its feminine management has been beset by cliques. Headed by diamante-bodiced Mrs. Keith, the orchestra board dropped Ebba Sundstrom. Last week Conductor St. Leger, despite his flourishes and foot-tappings, was praised by Critic Cecil Smith of the Tribune for lightening the symphony's habitual "humorless heavy-handedness." Next month First Violinist Gladys Welge, favorite of one group of players, will try her hand at conducting. In February, Conductor Erno Rapee (Radio City Music Hall) should settle...
...chief purpose of the Glee Club, as outlined by G. Wallace Woodworth '24, conductor, last night, is to give the undergraduate an opportunity for singing music which ranges from the 14th to the 20th century, from Beethoven to Gilbert and Sullivan...