Word: damrosche
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...they were listening to tones as strident as peroxided hair, to rhythms that strutted like Negro girls in diamond tiaras. "The most authentic piece of music," said Carl Van Vechten, "that ever came out of America." Critics hurried to crown with bayleaf the youthful brow of George Gershwin. Walter Damrosch besought him to write a jazz concerto for the New York Symphony Society; Composer Gershwin said he would...
Last week the long-heralded composition, "Concerto in F" was played in Carnegie Hall; with Mr. Damrosch conducting, Mr. Gershwin at the piano, and all the fine fiddlers, horn-blowers and hide-thumpers of the Symphony Orchestra in attendance...
...Walter Damrosch and his New York Symphony Orchestra sought volume and found it-volume in seating capacity, not sound. Last week they opened their Sunday concerts not in their accustomed Aeolian Hall but in Mecca Auditorium. The difference is this: 1,200 seats v. 3,700. Mr. Damrosch pronounced the acoustics of Mecca...
Born. To Mrs. Robert Littell of New York (the onetime Anita Damrosch, daughter of Walter) a son, one of whose grandfathers was James G. Blaine, famed Secretary of State, and two of whose great-grandfathers were Eliakim Littell, founder of The Living Age, and Dr. Leopold Damrosch, founder of the Oratorio Society and introducer of German opera at the Metropolitan Opera House; at Bar Harbor...
...each containing an item which had been circled with a pencil mark, reposed on a table. The first item related how Composer George Gershwin, famed jazzbo, had recently returned from Europe; the second stated that this Gershwin, when he had finished the piano concerto which Dr. Walter Damrosch has commissioned him to write for the New York Symphony Orchestra (TIME, May 4), will compose the score of a new musical comedy for the producers of Lady, Be Good. Soprano excitement abruptly galvanized the telephone at the young man's elbow: he began to address its black aperture...