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...Frenzied yawps of indignation followed on this side of the water. Defenders of American Artistic Ideals lacked no words, minced no words. A typical statement was that made by Herr Fritz Reiner, guest-conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra...
...York Philharmonic Society has announced that Wilhelm Furtwaengler, famed German composer and conductor, will shake his baton before the Philharmonic orchestra this Winter. He is the second guest-conductor, to be heralded? Igor Sravinsky, Russian cacophonist, having been the first. He is fifth on the complete list of conductors. Willem van Hoogstraten will be in charge during the first half of the season and will be relieved by Willem Mengelberg. Henry K. Hadley (American) will conduct some native works...
Furtwaengler is 38, a native Berliner, with a very impressive record?pupil of the boresome, but thorough, Rheinberger, theatre Conductor at L?beck and Zurich, successor of Artur Bodanzky at the Mannheim opera, Conductor of the Tonkünstler Orchestra at Vienna, successor of Richard Strauss at the Berlin Opera, Director of the Berlin Musikfreunde, of the Berlin Philharmonic, of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. On the score of previous experience, he holds his own with all newcomers...
...France (French)?Walter Damrosch, Conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra; Mme. Olga Petrova, actress-playwright; Owen Davis, dramatist; Edna Ferber, novelist; Hamilton Fish Armstrong, foreign affairs writer; Seymour Cromwell, onetime President of the New York Stock Exchange; two Newfoundland fishermen picked...
Aged 50, Marconi has already had a long career. In 1890 he began his experiments to prove that an electric current can pass through any substance-and that it can follow an undeviating course, in whatever direction it may be started, with no need for a wire or other conductor. In 1897 he won a great triumph-he succeeded in sending a message from Queen Victoria, ashore, to Edward of Wales aboard the royal yacht. Two years later he first came to the U. S., and has visited this country from time to time ever since. The amazing new wireless...