The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-01-28
Damrosch Symphony Orchestra Here on April 1O[
UNIVERSITY IN CHARGE
Arrangements Completed
for Concert; Tickets Sell
ing Rapidly.

llcnt Of music of the State University
to be in Missoula on April 10. Arr
engagements for the concert have been
completed by De Loss Smith. head of
the university department. and sub
scrption lists for tickets have already
been opened.
the concert are guaranteeing the Dam
rosch orchestra 81, 900 for the one night
in Misso,la, but the financial situation
is not at all frightening. The diff
Guilty indeed, will probably arise in
supplying all who want tickets SUBJ
ing brief time have brought about
the sale of 400 tickets. The demand.
it appears. Is general. not only in Mis-
soula but in the Bitter Root valley
towns as well. 4 StcvensvilIc man in
formed Director smith yesterday that
wanted reservations.
II is important, therefore, that those
who wish to attend the concert secure
reservations at once. The advance sale
will be by subscription only, and 1t
will be /, case Of first come. first
may secure them by calling Mr.. Smith
between 6 O'Clock and 5 any evening.
His telephone number is G5l.
The concert win be given in the
Missoula thcatcr That it offers an
opportunity rarely given Missoula pco-
pie is apparent, for the New York
symphony orchestra is peerless. Efren
Zf1nbalist. famous violinist, is with the
orchestra.
Damrosch Unique Figure.
Walter Damrosch, whose annual
spring festival tour has this season
celebrated his twenty fifth anniversary
as conductor, is practically a young
man. His success has not come by
reason of ambition, Of study, of talent
or adaptabilty alone. but all of these
combined. in addition to Il great capac-
ity as organizer, and ability to carry
out the plans and aims he sets for
himself, have contributed toward maxi
ing Mr.. Damrosch an entirely unique
figure in the musical life of this
country.
Placed in the position where he was
compelled to take into his own hands
the lines held by his noted father. DR.
Leopold Damrosch, at the age of % he
became conductor of grand opera. Nor
was he permitted to gee his routine
in the lighter forms. but the German
opera was the sea into which he was
plunged and all records are unanimous
in declaring it unprecedented In merit
and endurance.
When one takes into consideration
the intimate relation which existed be-
tween father and son, however, it is
easier to understand how ideals and
everything else were inculcated in Mr..
Damrosch during those years where
examples and association mean the
most. His early years of study were
spent under his father. Although a
pianist of unusual powers, Mr.. Dam
rosch never played in public AS a SOLO
list. lie had suffered Il muscular strain
in the first place, which gave him Il
good excuse to devote himself with
more ardor to the work in which his
father was interested. and he felt it
was more important and more desir-
able than the life of n virtuoso. no
matter how distinguished an artist he
might become.
In the son as in the father. the
strongest appeal always came from the
thing which was of greatest benefit to
the greatest number and throughout
these IS years of activity the record
Of Walter Damrosch will show that
this has been the strongest influence
in his career
As a very young man, he knew every
detail of choral conducting and he had
helped his father train the different
sccuons of the great festival chorus
which took part in the first festival
given in New York. Only those who
know what those great days of fcs-
tival singing represented to the must
cal development of this country can
! understand what sort of training Wal
ter Damrosch was receiving to prepare
him to occupy one of the most prom
| incnt roles in the musical life of Amer.
| lea.