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Show Twenty Years a Conductor. Thin year Is the twentieth year of Waller Wal-ler Damrosch's activities as an orchestra Conductor In America, says an Eastern ii-hanKe. li whs in Hi-brim r- lisv,'.. in th death nf his father. Jir Leopold Dam-rt Dam-rt BCh, thai he, at the age nf was Olt-rt-ed conductot of the New York Symphony soclet) and the Oratorio society, and also as assistant director to Edmund Sta.nt.in hi the Metropolitan opera-house in the latter capacity he w.m active In securing ihe s.-i I. t of Mine. I.ehtnann and v...srs Alvary, Plschei and s.-itii foi th fj run. n opera With Seidi he officiated as onductor until the end of the b rman Opera regime. Since thut time he has bt n active In the musical llf. of New York and, indeed, of ihe whoh country. After the French and Italian opera under Abbey, Schoeffel .v- Orau Bupplanted the (icrmati opera, Mr Damrosch founded the Damrosch Opei mpan) for the prod u - tion of Wagner's music dramas in Ger-man Ger-man and with ids company he gave performances per-formances fur four years In New York H and In all the pHnCipal i Itles of the United States as for w 'esi as Denver, pre- j Ben ting the Nlbelungen tiilou.s. "Tristan "Die Meiterslngei- ' as well us the eailh r i eras nf Wagner The Incessajnt work and traveling of tills company, of which i.e was sni. owner, manager and con- dUCtOr, liecessltat.-d his reslKnatloii from thi Oratorio sot 1 ty In L896, after conducting conduct-ing eleven vears. The s.in.-t) . however, continued its work under Frank Dam- los.-h, who has li ina'.in d lis i oiidti. tor ever since in the winters uf 1900 and 1901, t undei the Orau regime, Walter Dam-i'osch Dam-i'osch again n-tiiraed to the Meirnpolllati opera-housi as sole conductor for German Ger-man Opera, ii iwj he was conductor of the Phllhui 'Mtoulit orcheslrn but thla on-nectlon on-nectlon lasted Only one year. In lsK'3 he reorganized the New v..rk Symphony or- I estru and has devoted all bin energies to I this organisation ever since. The tbst year ih. orchestra bud mi financial subsidy, sub-sidy, but steadily gained support from mualcal circles unjn today the orchestra ies g nandsome subshiv This ena- i bled .Mr. Damrosch to perfect the organ- I j ixation and to give it the rehearsing and disi Ipllin which have developed it Into an organisation of the very llrst rank. From fift concerts s season three years ago the orchestra now plays In nearly lliree hundred concerts a year, and It Is iiu only symphony orchestra which is kepi togetht i the greater pan of the sum-mer sum-mer season, as well as in the wlntt r He-slih-s his work in the field of operas, oia-lorlos oia-lorlos and symphonic works. Mr. Dam- roBch has given thousands of explanatory iecture re Hals on the VSTagner music dramas, dra-mas, the symphonies or Beethoven, eii:. Man important works have received tin ir Mist production in America under i.is baton. Including Cornelius's opera H.iib.-t of Bagdad"; Goldmark'a 'fidar-lin," 'fidar-lin," Salnt-Saens's "Samson and Delllab." Pudcrewski's "Manru." Elszt's "Chrls-ii:i." "Chrls-ii:i." Tlhel's "St Francis," Porker's St. Chi'lstuphei iis." and nf the more Impin t-njil t-njil symphonies Brahms's No. 4, Tschal-kowsky's Tschal-kowsky's Nos 5 arjd o. Mahler s No. I 1 id Bi uoknei b No - |