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...Manhattan last week; on the stage of Carnegie Hall, Conductor Walter Damrosch lifted his baton high for the first New York Symphony concert of the season. Mozart had the honor of beginning, with his energetic Symphony in D, cooked to order at his father's command to tickle the palate of a Salzburg burgomaster. Schumann was next with his Concerto in A Minor, with Pianist Alfred Cortot to spin the important thread cunningly. Then came a stranger, Jacques Ibert, with three pieces from his ballet suite, Les Rencontres, given its U. S. premiere a fortnight ago by the Boston...
...Ernest Pingoud, 26-year-old Swiss with a Russian upbringing, became articulate; for in the gloom was hidden the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski. But the audience was slightly disconcerted during this notable visit. Desiring to "intensify the mystery and eloquence and beauty of the music" Conductor Stokowski had made his men invisible, with only steady little stars on their music stands. Obliged, nevertheless, to retain his own visibility, he had arranged for a spotlight directly over his head. This was what disconcerted, for it was no modest white spotlight, but a refulgent yellow sun. It shed a mighty...
There will be a new solo danseuse?Ruth Page, of Indianapolis, member once of Anna Pavlowa's company, and hitherto notable for her dancing in John Alden Carpenter's Birthday of the Infanta with the Chicago Opera; most important, a new conductor to strengthen further the Italian wing ?Vincenzo Bellezza, Roman, to make his Metropolitan debut with The Jewels of the Madonna during the season's first week...
...Cleveland. Conductor Nikolai Sokoloy, recipient of high praise as visiting conductor in Manhattan's summer Stadium concerts, led the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra in a brilliant opening of the current season. Tall, dark, magnetic, he gave careful, rhythmic reading to Bach's Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue; continued with Brahms's First Symphony, in a full-throated interpretation; was clever, cacophonous, to suit Strauss's Don Juan; ended with his now familiar spellbinding performance of Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun. Again the city congratulated itself on the musicianly foresight and executive powers of Adella Prentiss Hughes, first U. S. woman organizer...
...Francisco, Conductor Alfred Hertz led the first program of the San Francisco Symphony, chose Schumann's "First Symphony," Sibelius' "Swan of Tuonela" and Respighi's "Pines of Rome" for his first offerings. San Franciscans were well pleased, applauded especially the "Pines of Rome," new there. A phonograph record, that of a nightingale's song, was introduced for the first time, so far as is known, in a symphony orchestra...