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Inside, in the great warm hall, a shivering conductor shuffled his feet, besought silence; the lights of the entr'acte dimmed; still the great sound continued. In his dressing-room, a 28-ysar old U.S. baritone powdered his nose. Cast with the revered Scotti in the season's revival of Verdi's Falstaff, he had just ended the second act with the aria E sogno, in which he sets forth his suspicions that his spouse, Mistress Ford, is plotting infidelity with "that reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years," Falstaff (Scotti...
...each a face which alone might have been enough to bring to the hall the notable company that filled it on that evening. The company had assembled, the pianos trundled into line, all to get money for the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. Walter Damrosch*, famed conductor, waved his baton; the thunderous regiment as one voice responded...
Mary Garden, who has sung with the Chicago Opera Company since 1910 will take part in this opera, in company with Fernard Ansseau, Georges Baklanoff, Virgilio Lazzari and others of lesser fame. Giorgio Polacco, formerly with the Metropolitan Opera Company, and now chief conductor of the Chicago Company will be the conductor for the evening...
...stage of Aeolian Hall, Manhattan, was set for a concert. On it loomed no pianoforte's harp-shaped shadow; no fiddlers tried their strings; no brisk conductor raised his arm. It was bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard. At the back of this bare stage, there stood a huge screen, black-bordered; down by the footlights were certain metal boxes, each topped with a keyboard of sliding buttons. Before the concert began, a man made a speech. He was Thomas Wilfred, Danish singer, who invented the instrument so curiously composed of the metal boxes, the great screen...
...poor bookseller; Christopher Columbus helped his father to comb wool; Thomas Alva Edison started life as a newsboy; John Keats, before he became a medical student, used to help his father tend the horses at the Swan and Hoop livery stables; Mohammed was a lowly caravan conductor...