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...York Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1876 by Dr. Leopold Damrosch, and directed since his death in 1885 by his son, Walter Damrosch, has had wider influence on music in the U. S. than any other group. It has played before approximately 8,000,000 people, has traveled approximately 400,000 miles. Because the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer willed $500,000 to the Philharmonic, it could not legally abandon its identity. Therefore, it changed its name to Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York and at once absorbed the Symphony's directorate. Each orchestra will maintain its separate identity until...
Albert Fuchs (Chicago financier) offered all his wealth (more than $2,000,000) for cancer research, on the day after his wife died of cancer in Pasadena, Calif. Mrs. Fanny Richter Fuchs, famed pianist, made her debut in the U. S. under Walter Damrosch, retired from the concert stage several years ago because of ill health...
...best and his answer will be Bach and Beethoven and Handel and Haydn and Mozart and San Francisco and ice-cream sodas (the first thing he asked for after his Manhattan concert), handball, climbing rocks, chess, the new Cadillacs, St. Bernard dogs and giving concerts. Some weeks ago Walter Damrosch cautioned him gravely against playing the Beethoven Concerto with the New York Symphony and Yehudi said "Why not? I only want to have some fun playing with the orchestra." He had his fun and critics, niggardly always with their praise for youthful virtuosos, threw restraint to the winds, reveled...
WANTED, by the New York Symphony -a conductor. For three seasons now, since Walter Damrosch first hinted that his days of active service were numbered, Manhattan has known the New York Symphony Society to be on the lookout for a new and permanent conductor. The German Otto Klemperer (Wiesbaden) was imported for two seasons, tried and found wanting. So was the German Fritz Busch (Dresden) who just completed a trial term of nearly three months. Not for some time, in fact, has anything akin to satisfaction prevailed at a New York Symphony concert until last week. Then Ossip Gabrilowitsch, borrowed...
Substantiating this boast were able, painstaking, scientific sketches of fish, by Staff-Artist-of-the-Expedition Mrs. Helen Damrosch Tee-Van, niece of onetime Manhattan Symphony Conductor Walter Damrosch. Then there were land and seascapes by Frederick Church, likewise socially and artistically prominent. Also there were those faces...