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Last week the National Broadcasting Co. (Manhattan) announced that Dr. Walter Damrosch, retired patriarch of Carnegie Hall and the New York Symphony Orchestra (TIME, Dec. 27), would, beginning in October, conduct 24 orchestral concerts before the National microphones, prefacing each performance with a talk on the composition of the evening and explanations about the "instruments in the band...
...Damrosch rose to the occasion to declare Sir Henry "foremost conductor of Great Britain." Reflecting perhaps what Sir Henry's work would be like if it were like his own, he added: "Think what it will mean to the farmers. . . . I am not a scientist with sufficient knowledge to look into the future and see what it may encompass, so I merely say that 'sufficient unto the day is the achievement thereof...
Though officially retired (TIME, Dec. 27), scholarly Walter Damrosch, for 42 years conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra will reappear next year at his oldtime stand in Carnegie Hall as a guest conductor. Other guests will be Conductors Fritz Busch of the Dresden Opera and Ossip Gabrilowitsch of Detroit. And last week the Symphony Society announced who its fourth guest would be-darkly handsome Clemens Krauss, conductor-director of municipal opera at Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. Herr Krauss, who looks more like a Spanish matador than an orchestra leader, has never visited the U. S. In Europe his fame...
...gave vent, first to a song of their own choice, then to the required piece-"The Lotus Flower," it was this year, by Robert Schumann- and last to what newsgatherers love to call an "alma mater." Music Critic Olin Dowries of the New York Times, introduced by Dr. Walter Damrosch, presided over a board of judges which marked the young gentlemen's tone, diction, pitch, ensemble, interpretation. Conferring afterwards, the judges declared that the title had been retained by the melodious 1926 champions from Wesleyan University, whose voluntary contribution was "The Long Day Closes," by Arthur Seymour Sullivan. Young...
...Damrosch. (Walter Damrosch, whose father Leopold led the New York Symphony before him. Walter got the job when...