Show 1 New Y ork Place as Worlds World's Music Capital foreign reign and Native Musicians Mu Mu- i Flock to o Gotham Gothi Goth Goth- i am During 1928 Season Sr- Sr r V f By LORENA HICKOK 1 NEW YORK AP AP Th The lJ 19 inS H inSi i 4 lit music was another of ot tho c sea Heu- 1 eons nS of ot packed hooves und and it unending rivers of ot wealth b by byrson of or which mu nil all over oer fI country and Europe have ve c conic cOllie cOlliet mc t upon New York as us the J tits Vot ot gold at the end of ot their theli nb yn tZU at hall hail the then n hall hail and at the Metropolitan i t hang out the S It n 0 O. sIgn Ign 01 a d while the of ot currency tint In the box offices they take takeS f S R R. O. O because e there la lIS no noa a room even for tor v e York remains remain a sort of ot mu- mu 1 capital of ot the world an and the theIs iG Is r recorded here during luring 1 t ct Ct tho the situation throughout the I ifon fon CARNEGIE HALL PACKED In were dramatic doings n oTtI om Carnegie hall bali the pant t year I f. f i or Instance there wa was an eve- eve i rI nn when a 0 New York audience audience- n ft perfumed audience in furs fura furst t and velvets anti and jewels with long l o of costly motor cars curl waiting wulting outride t d gathered to It Ita ILa warm heart t. t a tir legged bare 11 little boy boy boy- boy tn the year old violin i. i so from San Francisco I And nd there thore was another evening t in tri rown own hall hail when a n group of ot EnY En- En Y h singers singers singing Christmas C carols without any accompaniment f camo mo back again and again for eu encores ores ore They had hall come over here tp three thre concerts concert They Ja gave ten ten every ev ry one of or them to sold out k and anel again they packed carnegie le hall hail and on Sunda Sunday after after- the tho Metropolitan Opera h house theeo uc these New Yorkers to to J r from Milan l In 3 his first season as regular conductor con con- 1 ductor for tho spring concerts of ot tho Philharmonic orchestra WELCOME ARTISTS They The flocked Into Carnegie hall halt thousands ot of them this fall to welcome wel wet weli i como come back Leopold with the tho 1 Philharmonic symphony orches orches- tra And with tears In their eyes one Sunday afternoon last Al April the they watched Walter Walle Damrosch raise his baton in Mecca temple to conduct the tho New York Symphony orchestra In tho the ada adagio lo from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony as his orchestra closed Its career of ot 50 years ears I I 1 On another Sunday afternoon In I Carnegie hall halt the they welcomed back baek Geraldine J. J Farrar a a a more matronly with Geraldine with a no glorious crown ot OL snowy hair singing in a voice smaller maller than of or old and the critics said aid with exquisite artistry American premieres and gorgeously gorgeously gorgeously gorge gorge- staged revivals one after alter another another another an an- other came to the Metropolitan Opera house None was wits more ex exciting ex- ex citing perhaps than the revival of Norma Sorma with Rosa Ponselle TWO PREMIERES Alread Already this season at the Metropolitan Met Met- ret ret- r p there there- have been two premieres pret pre Ire t mieres DIe theres Die Helena Strauss with as asI I len and Sunken If lieu Bell U magnificently staged In settings settings set set- tings by Joseph Urban There willbe will l to be more Thero There hero have havo been new singers InI In- In I l at the Metropolitan lust l lust season son ason and this fall fall but but no debut there that compared with that of ot tho the little bo boy violinist from San I There ld 11 been no violin debut so sensational sensa sensa- since that of ot the youthful ten years ago Jn In in orchestra music the outstanding itt ing events have o be ben n the return i of or kowski with the Philadelphia I orchestra the coming of aA full tull time conductor of or the Phil Phil- Xi harmonic for the last half hal C of the ii p i and the l passing of or the New rk RETURNS f r After receiving a n truly ro royal al mo this fall faU illness forced to take a years year's l r t. t Ho He will return for three c con con- n- n In the spring t t the tho time when Walter Dam- Dam c announced that his hilt New ew JQ 1 Symphony orchestra would VV t O Its Us career it was rumored that reached his decision because S' S A a 3 magnificent offer from the 10 lie now Is with the National D company During the summer there was no cessation cessation of New Yorks York's musical enthusiasm sm Always Alwa's popular the theli li concerts In Lewisohn stadium at the College of ot the City of New l. l rk rk which seats tilled fItted the he hetico tico night after night Thousands stood on the sidewalks outside this summer to listen I |