Walter Damrosch |

Walter Damrosch

Keiki a Leopold Damrosch. Ua aʻo ʻo ia i ke mele me kona makuakāne, a me F. Dreseke lāua ʻo V. Rishbiter ma Dresden; e hookani ana i ka piano me F. Inten, B. Bökelman a me M. Pinner ma USA; Ua aʻo ʻo ia i ke alakaʻi ma lalo o ke alakaʻi ʻana a X. Bulow. Mai ka makahiki 1871 ua noho ʻo ia ma ʻAmelika. Ua hoʻomaka ʻo ia i kāna ʻoihana ma ke ʻano he alakaʻi ma ke ʻano he kōkua no kona makuakāne. Ma hope o kona make ʻana i ka makahiki 1885-91, ua alakaʻi ʻo ia i ka hui Kelemania ma ka Metropolitan Opera ma New York, a ua alakaʻi pū ʻo ia i ka Oratorio Society (1885-98) a me ka Symphony Society (1885-1903). I ka makahiki 1895, ua hoʻonohonoho ʻo ia i ka Hui ʻOpera Damrosch, kahi āna i mākaʻikaʻi ai i ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa a hoʻokani i nā keaka a R. Wagner. Ua alakaʻi ʻo ia i kāna mau keaka ma ka Metropolitan Opera (1900-02).

Mai ka makahiki 1903 a hiki i ka makahiki 27, ua alakaʻi ʻo ia i ka New York Philharmonic Society Symphony Orchestra. Me kēia orkestra i ka makahiki 1926 ua hāʻawi ʻo ia i ka ʻahamele mua ma ka lekiō o ka National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC). I ka makahiki 1927-47 he kākāʻōlelo mele i NBC. No ka manawa mua ʻo ia i hana ai ma ʻAmelika i kekahi mau hana nui a nā haku haku ʻEulopa, ʻo ia hoʻi nā symphonies 3 a me 4 o Brahms, nā symphonies 4 a me 6 o Tchaikovsky, Wagner's Parsifal (ma ka hana ʻaha mele, 1896).

Nā haku mele:

kahawai – “The Scarlet Letter” (The Scarlet Letter, based on the novel by Hawthorne, 1896, Boston), “The Dove of Peace” (The Dove of peace, 1912, New York), “Cyrano de Bergerac” (1913, ibid .), "Man without a homeland" (The Man Without a Country, 1937, ibid.), "Cloak" (The Opera Cloak, 1942, ibid.); sonata no ka violin a me ka piano; no ka papa himeni a me ka hoolele – Manila Te Deum (1898), An Abraham Lincoln Song (1936), Dunkirk (no ka baritone, kane choir and chamber orchestra, 1943); himeni, incl. Make and General Putnam (1936); mele a me ka hana hale kiʻiʻoniʻoni - "Iphigenia in Aulis" a me "Medea" na Euripides (1915), "Electra" na Sophocles (1917).

Nā hana moʻokalaleo: ʻO koʻu ola mele, NY, 1923, 1930.