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...orchestra expects to include New York in a proposed spring four next year. In addition, concerts consisting solely of music of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries will be given under the leadership of a guest conductor, and the Sodality will assist the Glee Club and the Wellesley Cheral Society and Orchestra in a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta...
...good reason to be proud. Son Werner's Dixie Fugue was played at the Festival of American Music which Howard Hanson (Merry Mount) puts on each spring at Rochester, N. Y. More, the proud New York Philharmonic announced last week that Werner Janssen would be one of its conductors next season. In its Save-Our- Symphony campaign (TIME, May 7 et ante) there had bobbed up many a contributor who wanted to know more about what U. S. composers were accomplishing. To that end Werner Janssen was signed up to serve with such established European conductors as Arturo Toscanini...
...Conductor Janssen likes to have people forget his Hofbrau background. But Father Janssen proudly asks everyone he meets now if they know about his son Werner. Father Janssen is happy, also, on his own account. Repeal business has picked up in the old restaurant on 30th Street, the only one he has left. And he intends to branch out again, open a big place in Rockefeller Center. The new Hofbrau may be ready next winter when Werner's time comes to conduct the Philharmonic...
...music in England, spending 25 years and $10,000,000 on symphony concerts and operas. Often Sir Thomas has remarked good-naturedly that music in England is one long, promissory note. But at the season's gala opening in Covent Garden last week, England's No. 1 conductor was in no mood for suave epigrams. The opera was Fidelia, a heavy choice for Londoners less interested in Beethoven than in the King and Queen of Siam who sat in the royal box. The overture started but conversation buzzed on. Suddenly, without turning from the players. Sir Thomas barked...
Wines and beer will be on the menu to sharpen the aesthetic sense of even the dullest dullard, while Conductor Arthur Fielder will present a program of light music of popular as well as familiar airs. Tickets for tables at box office prices, range from $2.00 on the floor to $1.50 and $1.00 in the balcony. The music lover suffering from impecuniosity will be admitted...