The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-13
WALTER DANROSCH HONORED
ms ;JTH IEIR N Z come g.
T0R'ELEBR ITED "a 4 DINNER.
SN~r Wedding % Music and Nanhassi.
~ays Dr. van DSke-d;nesl sS Homer
Pays q Triba'e tS .ISsrFy and 70
tRtISkI- Vet knSNn PatkS There

ifUt IFIdIuftAAH AllfNnaFkeu WIN ART OF
.lrlos SORTS rlhbsd elbows in the bali
'onm II the Plaza las, niGht. They were
here Ia show how pleased they were
hat Walter DamrpSch decided IN he a
,-rnduCtor twenty-five years ago and that
inc public has decided in the interim that
Boz" has made a siccesa OF IL. 40 they ga,
a. meat with him. they talked about him.
and they sang for him
II the dinner itself had been les aSaaio
and Il the diners themselves had been a
biti" more allegro IN their after dinner
,uats there il every chance that each Of
m" 3>n we'll wishers would have shown
IA hIs individual way just what he though,
ui Mr. Damrosch
II was the silver Wedding Of Music aud
Manhood m the life OG this musician. AZ
~ Henry van Dyke put II in his prelude
80 postmaster. and there has been no
>uRgestIon OF divorce nor even a shadow
4 polite separation. Many or Mr. Dam
roschs friends were unable to lind a
place n, the celebration. Under the
umbrella Of green in the centre OF
ne room with the conductor aud Mrs
bamrosch sat DIR. van Dyke. Frederick
y. Converse. whose opera The Pipe Of
~ w PaNAANNA uNAA EENuaNs
Nine. Nordics. A. Toscanini. Mr. and
Mrs st. Clair McKelway. Mr.. and Mrs.
=. krehbiel. Mr.. and Mira William N
sloane and George W Young Among
The others scattered about the room were
Nine Gadski. Andrews DIPPED. A. Bonci.
N. Sammarco. y. Stengel Sembrich. Mr.
and Mrs. W. J. Henderson. John d. Crim
nInS, Modest Altschuler. RiohardWelling.
Daniel Frohman, Mr.. and Mrs Psul
Norton. Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert L. Setter.
lee. Otto n Kahn. Ben Greet. MIR. and Mrs
John J. Agar. Charles Klein. Elizabeth
Marbury. James NJ. Beck. Paul d. era
vath. Mr.. and Mrs. n. II. FIaGlsr. Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry SebgmRn. Riccardo Martin.
Victor Herbert David Names. Frederick
= Steinway Fannie Bloomfield Zei sler.
who WAS Mr. Damro~ch's pianist az his
first concert a. a conductor: Mrs Dpnisl
Lamont and Miss Frances Lamont.
Francis Hyde. Winthrop Ames. Mr..
and Mrs. & Ram Kennedy. the Rev. "
h-r's- smith, Emma rhursby. Mrs James
~u"ysr. Reginald d. koven. Olive Wynd-
nan. Franz kneis-l. Rafael loosely. Mr.
md Mrz. WilIiFm VI WINS. Charles Gil
tert,, Charles Dana Gibson and Finley
Peter Dunno
IL has taken twenty-five years to pre-
paT" for this dinner. ~ id DR. van Dyk.
after ia" orchestra Of the New York
symphony Soci. ~ bsreath q screen Of
Gr..en hluging- had played the choraIe
from Ia Nrisjnr,irger- He contin-
'I.d Again and again tn" great human
art ~ music he's chosen ana drawn To
r-r breast a man, a reel man. vigorous.
courageous. raSourceful. devoted. aud
fnund to herself and 70 her service With
TICS VIII iCh read until death do ~ mart
The two sons OF Leopold Damros"h
nae rendered an immense service. and
invaluable service. To America Ia their
dss otl"n - the high and noble art Of
music. Later referring to Walter Dam
.p-ch the toas,Inastsr said To those
Tho doubted him lee has brought a dts
RppoIntncnt which they may well ~.
Rratirieu. 10 those who beieyed IN him
no bds brought the satisfaction ~ =
prophet who prOphCstsE aTight
When Mr.. Dam-o-,.h hat a hearing later
n the evening he raid tribute to hls
Early master. Rafael Iossffy. and 10 Nim.
Z tad-kl. OF whom he sad Many a time .
mt she sing five Wagn"rLan roles IN one
week = striking contrast 20 some Of our
much petted prirna donnas Who cannot
sinE IN public unless they nave "a milk
'ath. piece Of dry toast and an apple
anu a ~ lilIf-~ NdN IfAaA IrtftfF Allf aAtet
each performance" To Mime T.rnina
- CAV" me appreciation and to Mime
NordtCA and Mime Teresa GaFT..uo and
Nine BlOomfied-/eisIer and to has father .
~ LEOPOLD DamrOsch. who's. control OF ,
the Metropolitan OFseEa HOUSE m issa
~a- The first trial o. German op--S m this
through all these wears I have tu-d
To- rOld fast 10 un~ teaching aud ,rsc..Td
0" which my father so'"innly toUnd m"
-.,I' Nr liaH'r,sch. and thai D, that th- /,
npdur-1r must consider niHlsslT SOLELY p
md absolutely an Interpreter I hav,.
zeal 90 sturdy faithfully and rev-r.n'lv
what The composers meant - convey
and have had no SYMPATHY with 'ho--
.rdu"-or- Who peer INTO the depths of ,
'.a mage lake ~ music
u i gratifying TO perceive a growing
lT. 'Iuation ou the part ~ car thinking
lurh, 20 rai=c the appreciation 81 mUsIC /
. 2 higher levsl than nervpu. rNCir'fn. NJ .
W. alteration of long hairrd PIANIST. .
and conduct Ts - On 'he wane
Music - AZ once the most spiritual /
and rnpaTzonal ~ all the arts. and can !
~ 'ss'eyc that u - right to pat u 10 such /
= nor ravai ~ brutal realism II the tor |
? 10 -.'-n- IN La IoSca or ths last act Of
Madame Butterfly or vor-a still. me 7
l.rr"lieved and ugly decatancr 81 = ,
NSIptnc ~ an Electra You will laugh
vhou ! tell YOU that nowadays I get INV
gr'st"sJ pleasure from Wagner music Z
rr,fna nv taking the orchestral score !
H'"n NV knee and reading u through IN /.
frv own room
+ nave cireams % opera m American :
~ he Metropolitan Opera HOUSE IN which D
f 10 director. CONDUCTOR artists. chorus [,
and nr"HRstra shall all 10 Americana
thor adopted OF horn. and not a. now /
merely l-itOTs who treat our country a.
~ 1'"mDorary soIntIrn for which money /
~ lrpy money. - in many Ca-sA- the. pTfn-
r' pal motive We welcome the foreign /