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Back from Europe last week, on the S. S. France came Walter Damrosch, genial, sexagenarian conductor of the New York Symphony, and forthwith there was issued an announcement of several of the Symphony Society's novelties for next season...
Conductor Damrosch told of many proud experiences, of being decorated in Spain by King Alfonso with the Medal of Isabella the Catholic, of conducting the Madrid Symphony. He said of the music situation in Spain: "The Madrid Symphony Orchestra is to be congratulated on its unusual enthusiasm which enables it to hold high the torch and keep the organization going when they are so poorly and inadequately paid. Strangely enough there are no aristocrats in Spain interested enough in music to serve as patrons or in any way to encourage musical development. The rank and file of the Spanish people...
...Emily Josephine Smith, 24, daughter of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, to Major John Adams Warner, 39, Superintendent of State Police, at Albany. Notables attending the wedding included: George Brennan (Democratic boss of Illinois), George W. Olvany (leader of Tammany), Owen D. Young, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Efrem Zimbalist, Assistant Secretary of the Navy T. Douglas Robinson. Through the "Papal Secretary of State, Pope Pius XI cabled his apostolic benediction for the couple. In all, 1,500 people crowded into the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, and the mass said by Patrick Cardinal Hayes lasted an hour...
Married. Leopold Damrosch Mannes, son of David Mannes, grandson of the late famed musician Leopold Damrosch, nephew of famed conductor Walter Damrosch; to Miss Edith Vernon Mann Simonds of East Hampton, L. I. The wedding march was composed by the bridegroom...
...American artists." The American artists were: Mme. Charles Cahier, contralto; Ruth Breton, violinist; Fred Patton, baritone; John Powell, composer-pianist. The American music was Powell's Variations and Fugue on a theme of F. C. Hahr, songs by Loeffler, Chadwick, Carpenter, Sidney Homer, Henry Hadley, E. S. Kelley, Walter Damrosch, Edward Harris, arrangements of Kentucky mountain songs by Howard A. Brockway, violin numbers by Brockway, Cecil Burleigh, Hadley, MacDowell and Sowerby...