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This big Prom season is also a testimony to the labors of grey-bearded Conductor Sir Henry Wood, 73. Sir Henry, a born Londoner who drops his haitches, is a British Walter Damrosch. He started the Proms as glorified ballad concerts, raised them gradually during 48 years to a symphonic level, is credited with doing as much as any man could to make Britons music-minded. Said the London Times last fortnight by way of tribute: "He met wars with dogged persistence, changes of taste with a willing compliance. . . . We set our watches by his arrival on the rostrum...
Another was in charge of music writing at the National Broadcasting Company for eight years-was one of Walter Damrosch's closest associates. He wrote the music section of the Book of Knowledge and authored several distinguished books on music appreciation in his own right. His "Approach to Music" was described by Critic Leonard Liebling as "definitely the most understandable and useful thing of its kind...
...statement that Frank Black succeeded Walter Damrosch as XBC's musical director in 1928; actually, he succeeded Erno Rapee, in 1932. Damrosch appointed musical counsel in 1927, still retains the title...
...Since Walter Damrosch's The Man Without a Country...
Left. By the late Playwright Sidney Coe Howard (They Knew What They Wanted, Yellowback, The Silver Cord): a net estate of $243,566; to his widow, Leopoldine, daughter of Walter Damrosch...