The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-08
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Tschaigowsky lived with his wife
less than a month. She got on his
nerves so much he had a collapse
and stayed unconscious for 48 hours.
=. He never spoke to the next
woman in his life Conducted
all relations with her via letter.
and she paid him $4,000 year
pension. tSee what happens when
you practice?) Berliozs IA
nous Symphonic Fantasique" was
an early torch tune written because
an Irish actress gave the composer
the brusheroo Schubert, be-
cause of his fondness for the grape.
was affectionately nicknamed 1.-THE
little sponge" q. When Spohr in
troduced the baton in England in
1920 he created terrific Other.
Saronoff, on the other hand, up
set the New York music world in
1904 by conducting without one.
Florenz Ziegfeld, Sr, founded
the Chicago Musical College and
was its head for almost so years
His son then glorified American
girls . Before the quality of his
voice was discovered Caruso was
blacksmith.
Smetena, the great Czech com
poser, wrote many of his most sue
cessful works after he had be-
come stone deaf Jose Iturbi,
when he plays the piano, uses a
seat not much higher than foot
stool . There are more than 300
symphony orchestras in the U. S.
Ten years ago there were less than
100 The Boston Symphony costs
about 100000 year Hitler's
musical hero, Wagner, harangued
his visitors in a conceited mon
olog, just like Adolf StokoW-
skis mother was Irish Marian
Anderson seldom sings love Tits.
:. The first broadcast of opera
was in 1910, when Lee DeForest
air-waved performances of "Pag-
liacci" and "Cavalleria- Rusticana',
with Caruso thrushing from the
stage of the Met One OF the
earliest symphonies was played
on three flutes Toscanini, on
his way to Radio City, often pauses
at nearby church to pray before
a performance.
Verdi was a grocer'S clerk and
played the palmer with the boss
daughter. He married her . Eu-
gene Ormandy, conductor of the
Philadelphia Symphony orchestra
used to conduct the crew at
Broadway's Capitol movie theater.
Intimates would have you
believe that Stokowski's erect pos
ture is due to his Ygi exercises.
;. Rachmaninoff almost always
was accompanied by an electric
heating pad for his hands
Donald Voorhees,, DR.. Frank Black
and Howard Barlow are the best
known Americana conductors,
Voorhees, comes from old Col
onial stock. The town of Guths-
vile, Pa. was named after his
mothers folks DIN Downes
used to be a reporter on the BoS-
ton Post Wagner created
sensation in Russia when he faced
his men instead of the audience,
while conducting.
Mime. Schumann- Heink wept af-
ter the first act of her operate
debut at the Metropolitan Opera
HOUSE because she thought the
shouts and whistling by the audi
ence were catcalls instead of &C
claim Ravel wrote his famed
''Bolero" for Ida Rubenstein, the
dancer, as a ballet For long
time it was thought the thumb
should never touch the black keys
of a piano, and Scarlatti created
a sensatio when he introduced the
crossing of the hands while playing
the piano Paganini, generally
regarded as the greatest violin vir-
tuoso of all time, was such con-
firmed gambler, he once paWned
his fiddle, his sole means of live
1ihood, to meet a gambling debt,
He wound up owning a piece of a
gambling joint.
The best known nocturnal gath
ering place in the world so far as
soldiers and sailors are concerned,
Is the Stage Door Canteen in New
York 1t cost $500 to open Is
months ago >. Irving Berlin gave
1t a baby grand piano, and when it
was played on a broadcast the
premiere week, Variety PANIED the
instrument, saying it was hopelessly
out of tune. Berlin immediately
sent new one . The millionth
visitor was Sgt. Howard Waller of
Portland, Oregon E. Although there
Is a strict rule that hostesses there