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Cincinnati's Symphony has lost $300,000 in the past six years, $60,000 of that total this past season. Losses have been met by borrowing from the capital of the Cincinnati Fine Arts Institute. Last week while seat sales for next season were being boosted, Conductor Eugene Goossens signed for another year...
...years capable Conductor Karl Krueger has built up a Philharmonic Orchestra in Kansas City, attracted great audiences. Season's end found them only $1,000 in the red, and with 17,500 season tickets already sold for next year's extended season. But $25,000 more in underwriting pledges is still required...
...Minneapolis & St. Paul, socialites worked hard & long to get pledges of some $60,000 for another season under popular Conductor Eugene Ormandy. Philadelphians rubbed their hands with satisfaction knowing that fair-haired Leopold Stokowski would definitely return for twelve weeks next season to conduct "our eloquent and unique orchestra." But this year's deficit was nearly $250,000. In an effort to avert a similar deficit next season, new Manager Alfred Reginald Allen announced that next season's subscriptions would be offered on an installment plan. 20% down, the rest payable in eight monthly installments. Whether...
...first time in 23 years San Francisco went through a winter without a symphony orchestra. The Musical Association was unable to raise funds sufficient even for the promised twelve-week season. The downhearted musicians refused to play for less. Conductor Issai Dobrowen, flashy young Russian Jew, pocketed the $12,000 owed him by contract and departed in March for Oslo without having raised a baton. But music-loving San Francisco, which three years ago came to the fore with a magnificent new municipal opera house, was unwilling to admit defeat...
...goodbys seemed to be over last week with a weepy luncheon at which Geraldine Farrar acted as toastmistress. Gatti was mellow. He bestowed an impulsive, bearded kiss on Conductor Arturo Toscanini, his oldtime colleague and again his friend. Then Rosa Ponselle got up one last party, at sailing time. When Gatti hulked up on deck he found that she had invited hundreds of friends to surprise him. Every opera singer still in town said another tearful goodby, drank champagne toasts. Gatti seemed tired and bewildered. But he replied with "Viva America, Viva Italia, Viva Roosevelt, Viva Mussolini...