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...Mannes Concerts have become a New York institution, attracted as many as 17,000 people to a single performance. Conductor Mannes has never ceased to boast that he "landed in the most beautiful building in the world." The son of a Polish furniture dealer, he was born 70 years ago in New York City. He was too poor to go to school more than four years, or to afford regular music lessons. From 13 onward, he fiddled at parties, skating rinks, theatres, a waxworks museum, learned English when he played for nothing at the old Union Square Theatre...
...Mannes was playing a solo between the acts at the Herman's Theatre. Conductor Walter Damrosch called him to his box, signed him up as a first violin with the New York Symphony Orchestra. Damrosch's sister Clara was singing with the Oratorio Society when Mannes met her. In 1898 Mannes became concertmaster of the Symphony, married Clara Damrosch the same year...
...record was not improved by a performance of Delibes' Lakmé. New Conductor Maurice de Abravanel tortured this suave, tuneful music into Wagnerian thunder. Vina Bovy, cast as the Hindoo maid, remained Vina Bovy and gave little support to Basso Leon Rothier who made Nilakantha piteous with his fits of love and fury. Not till the middle of the week brought a competent Aïda and a warm, vivid Faust in French did critics feel confidence in Director Johnson's French & Italian wings...
Dimitri Mitropoulos, the Athenian conductor, is for the second season the mid-winter guest conductor of the Boston Symphony, and will lead the orchestra in Sanders Theatre tomorrow evening as well as the concerts of Friday, Saturday, and Monday in Boston. He will be remembered for the excellent impression which he made last year and for his unusual methods of conducting which include some extraordinary vertical manoeveurs...
...program for Cambridge and for the week-end concerts in Boston is the same, and consists of five numbers, two of which are his own arrangements. The Prelude and Final Air from the opera "Dido and Aeneas" by the seventeenth century English composer, Purcell, arranged by the conductor, is to open the program. Following that is another Mitropoulos orchestration -- Beethoven's String Quartet in C sharp minor, opus...