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Last winter when Death took John Frederick Wolle, musical folk felt as though the passing of a great conductor meant the passing of a great institution. John Frederick Wolle founded the Bach Festivals in Bethlehem, Pa., kept them as potently alive as the steel industry which grew to spread its commercial smoke over practically everything else in Bethlehem. Farmers and later factory workers came to share "Mr. Fred's'' love for the music of Bach, for the great B Minor Mass whose choruses they learned to sing like professionals...
Bethlehem this spring entrusted its festival to the leadership of Bruce Anderson Carey, a bespectacled, broad-shouldered Canadian of 57 who teaches at Girard College in Philadelphia, trains and conducts the Mendelssohn Glee Club so well that Conductor Leopold Stokowski frequently engages it to sing difficult choral works with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Like blond-mopped Stokowski, Bruce Carey conducted last week without a baton, bringing out the Mass's mighty effects with direct, compelling gestures of his two bare hands. During intermission Festival directors met to discuss ways & means of perpetuating Fred Wolle's idea, to keep Bethlehem...
...Bach Chorale and Fugue, of Brahms's great Fourth Symphony. Violinist Amy Neill, wife of Lawyer Avern Scolnik who fiddled in the orchestra, soloed so expertly that critics complained sincerely about her playing so seldom in public. Wives and families of the players applauded so persistently that portly Conductor Clarence Evans got some real exercise bowing. But in all Orchestra Hall that evening there was none so proud as brawny, bald George Lytton who sat well back in the orchestra, hugging a bull- fiddle near Butcher Hugo Haberland...
...stage as titled Parisians and visiting nobility, escorted by gaily-dressed guards from New York's Seventh Regiment. The audience broke into cheers when chunky little old Maraella Sembrich came on as the Empress' mother. Grand Duchess Marie was magnificently regal as the Tsarina of Russia. Conductor Walter Damrosch, who likes to dress up, was impressively pontifical as the Abbe Franz Liszt. Jascha Heifetz was Johann Strauss, conducting the orchestra with his violin bow and fid- dling as the spirit moved him. Piano-Maker Theodore Steinway tried to impersonate bigheaded Richard Wagner. Violinist Albert Spalding caused a momentary...
...special vote, G. W. Woodworth, conductor of the orchestra for the seasons from 1929 to 1932, and Edward Ballantine, Professor of Music, who was pinao soloist with the orchestra several times during the past few seasons, were elected honorary members...