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...pose for cameramen, to announce in a thick brogue, "Yes, I met Mr. Carnegie when he used to give out chil dren's feeds at Skibo," Piper Grant was bundled off by Carnegie Son-in-Law Roswell Miller to await jubilee celebrations on Nov. 25. That day Walter Damrosch will conduct a choral-orchestral program at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall; Secretary of State Hull will address a gathering in Washington's Pan American Union Building, built with Carnegie funds ; Pittsburgh will honor its onetime first citizen; more than 2,000 U. S. colleges, schools, libraries that Carnegie...
Radio will spread great music again this winter. Decade ago few children knew the difference between a cello and a double bass. And many of their elders were equally ignorant. Last week six million listened to "Papa" Walter Damrosch and his National Broadcasting Orchestra, heard him talk about instruments, learned to understand their use. As patrons of music, big industry has supplanted the individual Maecenas. General Motors plans to spend $300,000 on its Sunday night broadcasts and Ford has outlined a budget almost as big. Ambitious tour of the season will come in the spring when the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...Damrosch name grew strong and so did the clan. When Walter had his hands full with his orchestra. Brother Frank took over the Oratorio Society, relinquished it in 1912 to head the Institute of Musical Art, now a part of the Juilliard School of Music. Brother Walter kept his programs consistently fresh and enterprising (even to the extent of sponsoring the first serious efforts of the upstart George Gershwin). But he was besieged by financial worries until 1914 when his friend Harry Harkness Flagler took over the Symphony's deficits, bore them single-handed until the merger with...
...observers then it seemed that Damrosch's day was done. After 42 years on the same stand, his performances grew routine and his players seemed lazy. But as a musical educator Conductor Damrosch was not to be defeated. National Broadcasting Co. begged him to teach school children, and he was again ready to pioneer. The Damrosch "Appreciation Hour" began by reaching a million youthful listeners. Last week it was estimated that through benign "Uncle Walter" some 6,000,000 children are learning to know great music. Proceeds of last week's Manhattan Jubilee went to the Musicians...
...Well-known throughout social Manhattan are the four Damrosch daughters: Alice, a famed ski-jumper and the divorced wife of Architect Pleasants Pennington; Gretchen, who writes plays and is married to Lawyer Thomas Finletter (Coudert Bros.); Leopoldine, who plays the piano and is wife to Playwright Sidney Howard; Anita, who married Robert Littell, able author and critic...