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Died. Albert Stoessel, 48, violinist, conductor, composer; of a heart attack while conducting; in Manhattan. He was also a distinguished teacher, in 1921 succeeded Walter Damrosch as maestro of New York's Oratorio Society, wrote an American opera (Garrick), was a guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony...
...musical prodigy ever since, at the age of ten, he conducted the People's Symphony of San Francisco through his own composition, A Legend of the Black Forest. For nine years he was violinist in front rank symphony orchestras conducted by Toscanini, Rodzinski, Bruno Walter and Walter Damrosch-but by contrast he has also played in hotel dance bands and in the pit of burlesque and movie houses. He studied for two years in Paris and Vienna-worked on the scores of several Broadway shows-and for a decade headed the department of theory and composition...
...Walter Damrosch went to St. Louis to conduct an oldtime German Stinger fest and found Traubel scheduled as a soloist. He was so bowled over by her voice that he invited her to Manhattan, promptly wrote a part for her in his opera The Man without a Country. The opera 'was a flop, but Traubel stayed on in Manhattan, cooking her own meals, mending her own clothes, plugging away patiently at her vocal studies. Two years later she managed to scrape up the cash for a Town Hall debut and critics made such a fuss that the Metropolitan added...
...only woman opera impresario in the world last week launched the freshest, most bumptious U.S. opera troupe on its second Manhattan season. The impresario is Hungarian-born Yolanda Mero-lrion of the youthful New Opera Company. For openers, Impresario Irion chose The Opera Cloak, Walter Damrosch's latest one-acter, and The Fair at Sorochinsk, a rollicking opus by Russia's rum-nosed Immortal, Modeste Moussorgsky. Eighty-year-old Composer Damrosch conducted his curtain raiser without drowning out the audience's spirited conversation. But for The Fair at Sorochinsk, they sat up, shut up and pounded their...
...sounded enough like Fledermaus to leave oldtime Strauss fans gasping with pleasure. Strauss's rose-tinted melodies (conducted by Viennese Maestro Erich Korngold, specially imported from Hollywood for the job) set its opening-night audience to swaying in their seats, caused at least one white-haired fan, Walter Damrosch, to go shagging down the aisle like a Habsburg jitterbug...