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...Capitalist George Fisher Baker: "Together with Delanos, Burdens, Mackays, Wideners, Waterburys, Cromwells and many another Manhattan society family, my husband and I last week attended a 'circus party' given for Violinist and Mrs. Paul Kochanski by Mr. and Mrs. William May Wright in their apartment. Walter Damrosch, Josef Stransky, Efrem Zimbalist and George Gershwin took turns leading 'the world's greatest circus band.' Munching hot dogs and popcorn, sipping pink lemonade, we strolled among sideshow booths -'The Sword Swallower,' 'The Circassian Beauty,' 'The Fire-eater,' 'Mysteria, The World...
...pertinent discussion of Mr. Walter Damrosch's career, TIME, Dec. 21, utters this surprising pronouncement: "the greatest Symphony since Beethoven, the Tschaikowsky 'Pathetique...
...attainment of the musical ideal, there is said to be a two-fold struggle: the creation of a perfect art, and the elevation of humanity to the point of appreciating it. In the first, Walter Damrosch is no pre-eminent figure. In the second, he is perhaps the greatest of all. Despite his drawing room graces, he is, at heart, a democrat. He works less for the highest perfection than for the most good. Sir Thomas Beecham, patrician British conductor, fled England when the government decided to subsidize radio broadcasting, avowed: "Broadcasting . . . bears as much relation...
Most humanitarians have a flair for pioneering. Conductor Damrosch brought Wagner into U. S. favor at a time when the fashion was to snicker at the German. He, first, played the greatest Symphony since Beethoven, the Tschaikowsky "Pathetique." He sponsored...
Even at the age of 14, he pioneered. With Gustav Schirmer, son of the publisher, he built a miniature stage, painted Rhine Valley scenery, peopled it with marionettes. The stage was set in the Damrosch parlor. While Gustav manipulated the Rhine maidens, Walter played the music on the piano. Thus was Richard Wagner's Rheingold produced for the first time in the U. S., (before the Schirmer and Damrosch families, admission 50c). Nine years later, Leopold Damrosch, noted German conductor, died. Walter succeeded his father as conductor of the New York Symphony, the Oratorio Society, the Metropolitan Opera...