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Married. Alice Damrosch Wolfe, ski-minded daughter of famed Conductor Walter Johannes Damrosch; and Herman Kiaer, Deputy High Commissioner for Norway to the 1939 New York World's Fair; in Manhattan: she for the third time, he for the first...
...innocent were arrested, shackled and handcuffed just because their enemies made false charges against them." Many could recall when anti-German feeling ran so high that it was hazardous to say "Auf Wiedersehen" on the street, when German opera singers were howled down, the Boston Symphony's German Conductor Dr. Karl Muck was interned, and the father of Senator La Follette was burned in effigy...
...audience were disgusted, and-being Brazilian-showed it. Smarting under their boos and hoots, the conductor of the Italian opera troupe stamped out of the theatre in Rio de Janeiro. To carry on the performance, the orchestra as one man boosted a 19109-year-old cellist to the conductor's stand. He led his men through the whole opera (Aida) from memory. That performance, 54 years ago, was Conductor Arturo Toscanini's first. Last week white-haired Maestro Toscanini made ready to play his first return engagement in Rio. With the NBC Symphony he sailed on a South...
...Stokowski has held auditions in a dozen cities, attracting youths from surrounding States. Some 10,000 boys and girls, aged 16 to 25, applied for jobs in the 109-piece orchestra. The 500 who survived preliminary weedings played before Stokowski, who judged them for personality, individuality, docility under a conductor. Stokowski would like to have every State represented in his orchestra, but he will not sacrifice musical perfection to geographical neatness. Said he last week in Washington, with calm assurance and bad grammar: "You've never heard an orchestra like this one's going...
...retreat from Moscow, it ends with a mixture of the Marseillaise, the Imperial Russian anthem and - so reads the score - a terrific salvo of artillery fire. Although most orchestras dub in cymbals and timpani, the 1812 has sometimes been performed with real cannon. Last week in Philadelphia, Conductor Eugene Ormandy's decision to blitz the 1812 gave the Philadelphia Orchestra a cute little publicity story...