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...parade through the handsome plaster buildings of Messrs. McKim, Mead & White at the Columbian ("World's Fair") Exposition, Reporters Lillie West Brown and George Ade shared a desk in the city room of the Chicago Daily News. Reporter Ade rose to be a special writer, then dramatic editor, then conductor of a column, finally a free-lance humorist (Fables in Slang) and playwright (The Sultan of Sulu). But Mrs. Lillie West Brown?who preferred to be known as "Amy Leslie"? stayed on at the Daily News as dramatic critic for 40 years. Last week, with fanfare and accolade...
Businessmen of St. Paul and Minneapolis last week merged the two local symphony orchestras for which they have long been guarantors. The merged orchestra's name: Minneapolis Symphony; conductor: Henri Verbrugghen; season: 16 weeks beginning Oct. 17; place: University of Minnesota's Cyrus Northrop Memorial Auditorium, Minneapolis...
Died. Siegfried Wagner, 61, orchestra conductor, composer of unsuccessful operas, son of the late great Composer Richard Wagner, director of the memorial festivals at Bayreuth; of pneumonia; at Bayreuth...
...wings a substitute tenor (Lauritz Melchior) fidgeted, waiting to take over the title-role should sick Tenor Sigmund Pilinsky collapse. On the dais, the back of Conductor Arturo Toscanini's mind held worry for his wife, in the hospital all week with a broken leg. Frau Cosima was dead. Son Siegfried had pneumonia. Nearest of kin to great Wilhelm Richard Wagner, in charge of this first evening of the 1930 Bayreuth festival was Siegfried's anxious wife. Yet despite all difficulties Tannhauser soared sonorously, sublimely to its final great choral of pity and pardon. When it was ended...
Back to the U. S. for his third season as guest conductor of Manhattan's Stadium Concerts last week came Albert Coates, conductor of London's Symphony. With him he brought Launcelot, his new symphony based on Arthurian legend. When questioned about it, Composer Coates answered newsmen brusquely, told them Launcelot was romantic in conception-therefore in the tradition of all true opera-that he had little sympathy with jazz, cacophony, dissonances, or other "modernistic" effects. Yes, he had been conducting in London, Berlin, Paris the past year; he was pleased with the reception...