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...blank-versified out of Edmond Rostand's play by the late William J. Henderson, musicritic of the New York Sun. Its workmanlike score was put together, out of a wide knowledge of Wagner and other masters, by a conductor who had been toonering along since 1885 -Walter Damrosch. Cyrano de Bergerac had five performances, was then forgotten by most people. But not by Conductor Damrosch...
Last week white-haired, cherubicund Dr. Damrosch lovingly conducted a new version of Cyrano, which he had polished up during the past three years. The opera was given in concert form in Carnegie Hall, with soloists and full orchestra. The long performance gave Conductor Damrosch perceptible pleasure: it was practically a celebration of his 79th birthday, just past. Next day the critics behaved like good children. Nearest to the mark (that Cyrano was appallingly dull) was Edward O'Gorman of the Post: ". . . a score . . . that the average listener might not journey far to hear, but one that he would...
...entering his 80th year, Walter Damrosch had better to boast of than his operas (he wrote three others, The Scarlet Letter, The Dove of Peace, The Man Without a Country). No man living has one more for good music in the U. S. than he. Born of a famed conductor father (Leopold Damrosch) in Breslau, Germany, Walter Damrosch took his own opera company barnstorming in the U. S., toured with the old New York Symphony to towns which had never heard a concert. Shrewd, levelheaded, anything but temperamental, he could take it in his stride when a snow-heavy trap...
...people in America. I have no prejudice against any. I want to unite labor, industry and agriculture. I want to unite Catholic and Protestant, Jew and Gentile." The crowd, waving U. S. flags, chanted again as in Philadelphia: "We want Willkie!" During one interlude of cheering, Maestro Walter Damrosch, sitting in a box, jumped up, and tried with husky voice and tears in eyes to sing My Country, 'Tis of Thee. Willkie finished his speech. The crowd rose to the national anthem, while the spotlight held their candidate in its silver glare...
Pink-cheeked, bushy-browed Maestro Walter Damrosch, 78, built a baton-swinging cardboard effigy of Wendell Willkie at his Manhattan house, summoned musicians to see it. Putting politics before mythology, he crowed: "We are going to elect Willkie the conductor of 130,000,000 people for four years. ... He is playing the music from Wagner's opera Siegfried, in which Siegfried comes to awaken Brünnehilde, who has been asleep for eight years...