Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1909 — New York Symphony Orchestra. [ARTICLE]

New York Symphony Orchestra.

Visitors at Winona Lake this summer during the week of July 26 will have the opportunity to enjoy one of the greatest musical festivals ever offered In Indiana. The New York Symphony Orchestra, with Walter Damrosch as conductor, will be heard there every afternoon and evening during the entire week. It is needless to expatiate upon the merits of this wonderful association of artists. All musical people the wide world over know of Walter Damrosch and his famous orchestra. Every player in it is an artist of wide recognition. Many have been with Walter Damrosch for years. Upon the death of his father, the celebrated Dr. Leopold Damrosch, twentyfive years ago, Walter Damrosch, then but a youth of twenty-two, had so completely won the hearts and confidence of the musical world that he was elected successor to his father, not only of the New York Symphony and Oratorio Societies, but musical conductor of the Metropolitan Opera House as well. Step by step he revealed himself as an artist of rare ability; and step by step he has guided the destinies of the New York Symphony Orchestra until its renown is world-wide. It was he who first brought forward Wagnerian music- in America, until today it is loved and appreciated by all musical people In this country. Wagner is the greatest modern master of music, and his compositions as interpreted by the New York Symphony Orchestra are developed to their highest point of execution. This will be a week of feasting for all lovers of the best in musical productions.