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    Walter Johannes Damrosch (January 30, 1862 – December 22, 1950) was a Prussian-born American conductor and composer. He was the director of the New York...
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    He came to the United States with his father, brother, conductor Walter Damrosch, and sister, music teacher Clara Mannes, in 1871. His parents were...
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    December 13, 1928, in Carnegie Hall, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Philharmonic. It was Damrosch who had commissioned Gershwin to write his...
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    teacher. He was the patriarch of the Damrosch family, which includes Frank Damrosch and Walter Damrosch. Damrosch was born in Posen (Poznań), Kingdom of...
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  • needed] Upon his death in 1885, Leopold Damrosch was succeeded as musical director by his son Walter Damrosch. In 1903, during a reorganization, it was...
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  • Harvard Leopold Damrosch (1832–1885), German-born American conductor and composer Lori Fisler Damrosch, American legal scholar Walter Damrosch (1862–1950)...
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    Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, written in 1926 on a commission from Walter Damrosch for the New York Symphony Society. Tapiola portrays Tapio, the animating...
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  • in October 1934. Alice, the eldest daughter of American conductor Walter Damrosch, had previously been married to Hall Pleasants Pennington but divorced...
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    composer as soloist, accompanied by the New York Symphony Society under Walter Damrosch. The work has the reputation of being one of the most technically challenging...
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    Leopoldine "Polly" Damrosch, youngest daughter American of conductor and composer Walter Damrosch. The couple had a son, Walter Damrosch Howard, and two...
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    orchestra, premiered in Carnegie Hall by the New York Symphony Orchestra, Walter Damrosch conducting. I. Allegro II. Adagio – Andante con moto – Adagio III....
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    following year, her father married Polly Damrosch, a daughter of the German-American conductor and composer Walter Damrosch. Howard lost her father nine years...
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  • commission from the conductor and director Walter Damrosch. A full performance lasts around half an hour. Damrosch had been present at the February 12, 1924...
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  • Carnegie Hall, is cleaning in preparation for the next evening's concert. Walter Damrosch is rehearsing his Symphony Society of New York in Tchaikovsky's Piano...
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    unsuccessful seasons" under Emil Paur, music director from 1898 to 1902, and Walter Damrosch, who served for only one season, 1902/03. After that, he says, for...
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  • Clara Mannes (redirect from Clara Damrosch)
    and her father was conductor Leopold Damrosch. Her siblings were conductors Frank Damrosch and Walter Damrosch. Her parents were Lutheran (her paternal...
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  • private performing arts conservatory in New York City. Founded by Frank Damrosch as the Institute of Musical Art in 1905, the school later added dance and...
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    Cobb (1892), Arthur Thayer (1892), Henry Trevannion (1898), Walter Damrosch (1898), Walter Hedgcock (1899), and Arthur Whiting (1900); Percy Grainger composed...
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  • American opera company founded by Walter Damrosch Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center, New York City, named after the Damrosch family This disambiguation page...
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    five musicians to agree upon an arrangement. Those musicians were Walter Damrosch, Will Earhart, Arnold J. Gantvoort, Oscar Sonneck and John Philip Sousa...
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    Tapiola, Sibelius's last major orchestral work, was commissioned by Walter Damrosch for the New York Philharmonic Society where it was premiered on 26...
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    1886, they moved to the United States, as they both had been hired by Walter Damrosch and Anton Seidl to join the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Herbert...
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    Sweet, and worked as a choral singer in New York concerts conducted by Walter Damrosch and Anton Seidl. In 1898 Croxton joined the Broadway Opera Company...
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  • Campbell, Linda Ware, Ned Sparks, Laura Hope Crews, Janet Waldo and Walter Damrosch. Filming started in Hollywood on April 17, 1939 and was finished in...
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    to perform at Ravinia Festival was the New York Philharmonic under Walter Damrosch on June 17, 1905, with the Chicago Tribune praising its "musical entertainment...
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    including Carl Van Vechten, Marguerite d'Alvarez, Victor Herbert, Walter Damrosch, and Willie "the Lion" Smith. In a pre-concert lecture, Whiteman's...
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    Reginald De Koven praised a Rachmaninoff concerto performance under Walter Damrosch, writing that he rarely saw a New York audience "more moved, excited...
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    interpretations were noted for their almost mystical intensity. The conductor Walter Damrosch, Leopold's son, also initiated a long relationship with the Met during...
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    the story, also entitled The Man Without a Country, was composed by Walter Damrosch and premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1937. On September 30, 1943...
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    grandfather was conductor Leopold Damrosch, and his maternal uncles were conductors Walter Damrosch and Frank Damrosch. His father was Jewish; his mother...
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