Word: oratorio
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...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, at the age of 23. He immediately executed plans for a more elaborate presentation of Wagnerian opera than had been possible in the parlor...
Good News From Heav'n from the "Christmas Oratorio' Bach Miserere Allegri Cherubim Song Rachmaninov Cavalier Song Stanford Along the Garden Ways Heilman Chant de Guerre Schmitt (Soloist: Joseph Lautner '21) Chorus of Bacchantes, from Philemon and Baucis" Gounod Moonland Melartin Coronation Scene, from "Boris Godounov" Moussorgsky Intermission Four Folk Songs: The Galway Piper Gute Nacht Reaper's Song Turn Ye to Me (Soloist: C. R. Gordon II/) Drake's Drum Coleridge-Taylor Love Songs: Brahms Not so Close to Me A Tremor's in the Branches Nightingale, Thy Sweetest Song From You Hills the Torrent Speeds Secret Nook...
...second year of its existence, the New York Oratorio Society gave its first performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah. They gave it again last week, 50 year later, in Carnegie Hall with a chorus of 200 and a large orchestra drawn from the New York Symphony. An earnest audience, knowing Elijah to be good, assumed the performance to be equally good; applauded indiscriminately mediocre singing by Marjorie Nash, soprano; by Jeanne Laval, contralto; the Elijah of Baritone Louis Gravewre, celebrating his tenth anniversary in the role with a performance well below his usual excellent standard; Septuagenarian Dan Beddoe, greatest...
...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...
...distant roaring of the steel foundries of Charles M. Schwab, and the irreverent cannonade of a thunderstorm whose salvos rocked high heaven and shook the windows of the church wherein burghers and visitors had gathered to hear the trombone choir and the local soloists deliver Bach's Christmas Oratorio, the little town of Bethlehem, Pa., lay still. Conductor Wolle raised his baton. A clap of thunder split the sky like a peasecod. Lightning assaulted the darkness through every shivering window, and the place seemed, for a moment, to be filled with whirling laughter, like the mirth of demons. Conductor...