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...Choir Conductor. Dayton, Ohio, as everyone knows, hears the first clang of more newborn cash registers than any other city in the world. Many persons have still to be informed, however, that Dayton hears also the best choral music sung today in the U.S., for which credit is due John Finley Williamson, a conductor who knew what he wanted, and Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott, a wealthy Daytonian who believed...
...What Conductor Williamson wanted was better church music. He wanted to recreate an interest in the art of hymnology. Music, he said, was once the child of the church, where Bach, Haydn, Beethoven and the rest had their training. It should be brought back and made worshipful, the professional tang taken out. It should be devotion itself and delivered always with the greatest artistry...
...themselves. The Dayton Westminster Choir makes no such pretense, has for patroness the able and energetic Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott, widow of Engineer Talbott who built the Soo locks and many a railroad. Herself a good amateur musician, Mrs. Talbott was quick to see the worth in Conductor Williamson's work, to contribute generously her money and time. Aside from the choir, her interests have been manifold and great. She has been president of the Anti-Suffrage League in Ohio, of the Anti-Saloon League. She has been an active realtor in Miami. She is mother of nine children...
...Pierian Sodality will give a concert at the Union tomorrow evening at 7.15 o'clock. Nicholas Sloninsky will be the conductor...
Last week, a group of stragglers arrived late for a Toscanini concert in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan. They clattered down the aisle, banged down their seats, threw back their coats. They may have thought themselves unnoticed but the little man on the conductor's dais had been disturbed. He wheeled on them, crossed his arms in a Napoleonic attitude, stared them up and down and said, quite distinctly, "You are late!" Philadelphia audiences have been frequently rebuked by Conductor Leopold Stokowski; Manhattan, never before...