Word: oratorio
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Composer Damrosch began to conduct the New York Symphony and Oratorio Societies 50 years ago, kept the former until 1927, year before it merged with the Philharmonic, founded the Damrosch Opera Company and made $53,000 the first season. He made himself nationally famous by his lectures on Wagner, is still active with a children's music hour on the radio. Arthur Guiterman, whose verses in oldtime Life and elsewhere were for a generation as much of a U. S. landmark as the drawings of Charles Dana Gibson, still publishes skittish poems, but has in recent years tried more...
...This time there were men in her orchestra, managing some of the unwieldy winds. Though Conductor Brico was in excellent form and the women played better than ever before, the real hero of the evening was Horatio William Parker, a dead and almost forgotten composer whose first oratorio made him famous 40 years ago. His Hora Novissima has since been played so rarely in the concert hall that last week it seemed like a premiere...
...Parker wrote Hora Novissima, his masterpiece, taking the text from Bernard de Morlaix' 12th-Century Rhythm of the Celestial Country. The oratorio was full of magnificent solos and broad, romantic melodies, showed unmistakably the young composer's German training. After a great success in the U. S., Hora Novissima became, in 1899, the first U. S. work ever sung at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester, England. Three years later Cambridge University made him a Doctor of Music...
...Mannes was playing a solo between the acts at the Herman's Theatre. Conductor Walter Damrosch called him to his box, signed him up as a first violin with the New York Symphony Orchestra. Damrosch's sister Clara was singing with the Oratorio Society when Mannes met her. In 1898 Mannes became concertmaster of the Symphony, married Clara Damrosch the same year...
...familiar State Symphony Orchestra (Federal Music Project) is to play in sanders Theatre this evening at 8:15. Among the works to be performed are Randall Thompson's Second Symphony and Bruch's Violin Concerto in E minor. The Federal Music Project is also giving Horatio W. Parker's oratorio, "Hora Novissima," in Jordan Hall on Friday evening...