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...last Glee Club concert of a series of three presented annually at Symphony Hall in Boston will be given there on Thursday, April 5. Dr. A. T. Davison '06 will act as conductor and Frieda Hempel, soprano, will be the assisting soloist. She will sing two groups of songs alone and one with the Glee Club...
...invitation of Mr. Pierre Monteux, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 75 members of the University Glee Club will sing the Choral parts of Liszt's "Faust Symphony" at the regular concern of the Symphony Orchestra this afternoon. Arthur Hackett, a Tenor, from the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York, will sing the solo parts of the symphony...
...singers of the Wagnerian Festival seem excellent, notably the baritone Schorr. By comparison they have made the orchestra all the more an abomination. The company picked up a group of musicians hurriedly, and put them through the ticklish walks, paces, and gallops of pieces like Die Meistersinger and Tristan. Conductor Blech is an excellent director, but the Archangel Gabriel, himself, would have his troubles with a group of players hastily recruited, and thrown into such a fray as the last half of the Meistersinger prelude...
...York Symphony Orchestra exhibited in its concerts of last Thursday afternoon and Friday evening, a new guest conductor. He was Bruno Walter, of much reputation in Germany, where he conducts the Munich Opera. Walter is especially renowned as a conductor of Mozart. He directed the symphony in D of the Salzburg composer. It would not be too rash to state outright that it was the finest Mozart conducting to be heard in the world today. Walter very sensibly cut down the orchestra to eighteenth century propositions. He achieved an exquisite balance of tone. It was no case of the huge...
William Van Hoogstraten was chosen to take the place of Josef Stransky, recently resigned, as conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra, along with William Mengelberg. Both Mr. Mengelberg and Mr. Van Hoogstraten are Hollanders. With his wife, Mme. Elly Ney, pianist, the latter came to New York for the first time last season, when he twice conducted the Philharmonic, with his wife as soloist...