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Notably, his biographer finds, Wagner was unjust to Conductor Lachner, to Robert von Hornstein, his friend, to his first wife Minna, to all hostile critics. His disposition was tempestuous, overbearing; he never paid his bills; not merely asked, but demanded loans of his friends as a condition of continued friendship; was enraged at Minna for her imbecilic protests at his open amours; indignantly resented any interference? even the most pacific?from the husband or family of any lady who chanced to be the object of his rather various affections. A boorish, choleric, tactless, amorous gentlemen was this Wagner, improvident...
...Chicago, too, a conductor was the hero of the premiere. The presentation of La Gioconda, Ponchielli's opera, was a triumph not alone for the ever-popular Rosa Raisa in the title role, but chiefly for Giorgio Polacco, orchestral alchemist, who turned the good showmanship and occasionally melodiously inspirational score of Ponchielli's ponderous work into the semblance of a piece of true art. His genius not only led him to underscore the dramatic situations which are the opera's chief virtue, but to give rare opportunity to the singers themselves, chorus and principals, to make...
Features, of the week at Chicago's auditorium were Lucia, presenting for the first time Toti dal Monte, soprano; Tannhaüser, with another new conductor, Mr. Weber; Samson and Delilah. The ever-popular Rosa Raisa's second appearance of the season was in Aida, last Saturday night...
Married. Miss Anita Damrosch, daughter of Walter Damrosch, famed conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra, to Robert Littell, one of the editors of The New Republic; in Manhattan, on her 21st birthday. Granddaughter of James G. Elaine (of Maine), she is niece of Anita McCormick Blaine of Chicago...
...resigned the afternoon before the performance as a result of differences existing between himself and George Blumenthal, general manager of the company. Mr. Waghalter maintained that the orchestra had been insufficiently rehearsed and he was unwilling to risk his musical reputation by conducting it. He was for twelve years conductor of the German Opera House in Berlin...