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William H. Crocker of San Francisco (banker and Republican National Committeeman), Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman (ex-President of Cornell University, now Minister to China), James R. Sheffield (Ambassador to Mexico), Ogden H. Hammond (retired banker of New Jersey), Walter J. Damrosch* (famed orchestra conductor in Manhattan, son-in-law of the late James G. Elaine). Most of these were no more likely of choice than several score of others unnamed...
...Walter Johannes Damrosch was born in Breslau, Silesia, in 1862. Aged nine, he migrated to Manhattan. Dr. Leopold Damrosch, his father, was a musician of note, and in Walter's youth, Wagner, Liszt, von Bulow, Ruyer, Rubinstein visited his home. At 14 his father let him appear in his orchestra at the performance of an operetta but Walter was too nervous to life the cymbals. Nevertheless at 23 he became conductor of the N. Y. Symphony Society-at a time when there were only three symphony orchestras in the U. S. -the New York and Boston Symphonies...
Doctors, lawyers, merchant chiefs-they were going to bid for the piano. Cunningly, Mr. Day conducted an orchestra of instruments subtler than those of Mr. Damrosch's. Up and up went the bidders. At last only three were left: William C. Potter, President of the Guaranty Trust Co.; Charles E. Mitchell, President of the National City Bank; Thomas Cochran, of J. P. Morgan...
...Cochran, generous with dollars, jokes, and rich in both, came to own the piano. Immediately he presented it to the Association. Then the 18 artists played We Won't Go Home Till Morning. They improvised chopsticks; the tune was recorded on a player-piano role, auctioned by Mr. Damrosch to Cornelius N. Bliss...
...Walter Damrosch was born in Breslau, Silesia, came to the U. S. when he was nine. His father, also a conductor, was a friend of Liszt, Wagner, von Billow, Auer, Rubinstein; he led an orchestra in which Walter made his first public appearance-as a cymbal player. The youth was so nervous that he could not lift the cymbals. Later he played in his father's orchestra with the second violins to learn how instrument players follow the conductor's beat. Recently he owned the largest private music library in the world, presented it to the New York...