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Wedding in Weehawken. In 1934 white-maned Walter Damrosch visited St. Louis to guest-conduct the annual German singing societies Sängerjest, and was outraged to learn that a local soprano had been signed as one of the soloists. After a rehearsal of the Liebestod he mopped his brow excitedly,, kissed Traubel and said: "My dear, I brought...
...operas produced by the Met, only Deems Taylor's The King's Henchman (1927) and Peter Ibbetson (1931), and Louis Gruenberg's Emperor Jones (1933) were mild successes. The last pre-Menotti U.S. opera was Walter Damrosch's The Man without a Country, which got one performance...
Died. Georges Barrère, 67, famed flutist (TIME, Jan. 3); after a stroke; in Kingston, N.Y. Alumnus of the orchestra of Paris' Folies Bergères, Flutist Barrère spent nearly 40 years in the U.S., playing in Walter Damrosch's New York Symphony, touring with the Barrere Little Symphony, and teaching a whole generation of younger U.S. flutists. He affected an imperial beard, fawn-colored trousers, a Prince Albert and an assortment of exotic flutes made of silver, gold and platinum, valued as high as $3,000 apiece...
...part to the untiring evangelism of the Flute Club's founder and president, 67-year-old Georges Barrère. Flutist Barrère, one of the few surviving devotees of the gaiter, the Prince Albert and the imperial beard, was brought to the U.S. by Walter Damrosch in 1905. Son of a Bordeaux grocer and alumnus of Paris' Folies-Bergère orchestra, he barnstormed every state in the Union with an organization known as the Barrère Little Symphony...
...recruiting act which played Manhattan vaudeville theaters. Federal officers seized copies of the song It'll Be a Hot Time for the Old Boys when the Young Men go to War. Notable entertainers who volunteered to go overseas were John Drew, Billie Burke, Jane Cowl. Lillian Russell, Walter Damrosch. Maude Adams...