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Show In Varied Keys Financial Independence has been assured as-sured tho New York Symphony orchestra orches-tra by the offer of Its president, Harry Harkness Flagler, to defray personally the doflclt of the society for tho future, boglnnlng May 1, 1014. The orchestra's annual deficit has been between 50,000 and $60,000, and has Hitherto been mot by a group of twenty-eight subscribers, Wolf-Ferrari's new "little" opera, "IAmorc Medico," which recently had Its premiere In New York at the Metropolitan, Met-ropolitan, was cordially received. While the critics, some of them, spoko of the work as lacking musical originality, others oth-ers declared that It "may be held up as a model to those modern writers who attempt at-tempt opera of tho featherweight kind." a Says "Mephlsto" In Musical America, speaking of the Melba-Kubellk tour: "To mo the extraordinary, feature of this musical mu-sical escapade is that by universal consent con-sent Nellie Molba managed to make one-night one-night etands. often going with little or no sleep, and came out before her audience audi-ence every time fresh and smiling, while other members of the company were Sretty nearly on their last legs. Madame lelba haa been singlne this season better bet-ter than for years." |