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...first act of The Music Robber, an opera in jazz, with music by an American (Isaac Vangrove, onetime assistant conductor of the Chicago Opera Company) and with lyrics by an American (Richard L. Stokes, dramatic critic of the St. Louis Post-Despatch) was given a gentle premier in the St. Louis Municipal Theatre last week. Dignity was the keynote. There was no saxophone in the orchestra, nor any instrument with a belly for giggling, or a ribald larynx. Tenor Forest Lament lifted up his voice impressively. An audience of some 9,000 who had come to catcall, hump their shoulders...
Edwin Franko Goldman, conductor of the famed Goldman Band, had offered prizes-one silver, two bronze medals-to go to the persons who recognized the greatest number of tunes from the excerpts which his celebrated bandsmen would deliver. Because it is impossible to print music in the compressed pages of a newsmagazine, readers cannot play the game as Goldman's listeners played it. But they can try it in reverse order. Reading the name of the selections played by Mr. Goldman, they can see if they are able to whistle...
...cornetist in the Metropolitan Opera House. After ten years with his orchestra, he resigned, has since become famed as a teacher, author, conductor, composer. He has written books on cornet playing. His best band compositions have been inspired by the preposition "On"-On the Green, On the Mall, On the Go. The American Indians, on the other hand, are responsible for such pieces as Cherokee, Sunapee, Sagamore, Eagle Eyes. Concerts given by his band in Manhattan parks and stadia have been remarkable for the perfect orderliness of the audiences. His organization has been called, "A Symphony Orchestra in Brass...
...Conductor Karl Muck, with a company from the Vienna Staatsoper rehearsed Mozart's Don Giovanni. Franz Schalk prepared to conduct The Marriage of Figaro...
...this, Sir Landon Ronald, conductor of the London Symphony, made reply...