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1918 Feb 06, 15; Mar 08 / Subscription Season / Damrosch

ID:
10397
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  • New York Symphony
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"S" = Soloist
"A" = Assisting Artist
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Dates / Event Types / Venues
  • Feb 6, 1918 / 2:20PM / Subscription Season / Carnegie Hall / Manhattan, NY
  • Feb 15, 1918 / 2:20PM / Subscription Season / Carnegie Hall / Manhattan, NY
  • Mar 8, 1918 / 8:45PM / Subscription Season / Carnegie Hall / Manhattan, NY
Notes
NYSSO presents Margaret Anglin in the "Electra" of Sophocles (Edward Hayes Plumptre Translation) With Special Music Composed by Walter Damrosch
NYT: "Two or three choral passages were sung as solos. But in the main the function of the chorus was sustained by the Symphony Orchestra." [World Premiere]

CAST OF CHARACTERS:
Guardian, Foster Father of Orestes - Fuller Mellish
Orestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra - Fred Eric
Pylades, Friend of Orestes - Benjamin Kauser
Chorus of Argive Maidens - Diantha Pattison, Marthena Barrie, Mabel Vanet, Mildred Kirsh, Alice Martin, Mata Heineman, Solvejg La Mard, Rosepha Chisolm, Louise Mertens, Eleanor Hutchinson, Esther M. Waterman, Rachel Morton Harris, Frances Grayson, Grace Cowie, Elizabeth Lennox
Electra, Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra - Miss Anglin
Chrysothemis, Sister of Orestes and Electra - Madeline Delmar
Attendants on Chrysothemis - Melrose Pitman, Melanie Avery, Bathsheba Askowith
Clytemnestra, Queen of Argos - Florence Wollersen
Attendants on Clytemnestra - Louise Killinger, Anita Day, Ola Davis, Sarah Shirley, Beatrice Wanger, Marc Loebell, Louis John Bartels, William Bayne, Elizabeth Eyre
Aegisthos, Husband of Clytemnestra - Mitchell Harris
Attendants on Aegisthos - Oscar Wiedhass, Samuel Gorn, Henry Morgan

Vocal Solos by Rachel Morton Harris
The scene is laid before the Royal Palace at Mycenae
Settings designed by Livingston Platt
Play produced by Miss Anglin, Howard Lindsey, Director
Consulting Director of movement, Florence Fleming Noyes
Manager for Miss Anglin, James Shesgreen
Miss Anglin wishes to acknowledge valuable assistance rendered her by Miss Alice Kauser, also to Mr. Joseph Wickes and Mr. Gustav Weidhass for execution of Settings and Properties.
Accompanist, William Parson
Costumes executed by Mrs. Fralich

The Symphony Society Bulletin was a newsletter produced in advance of the New York Symphony concerts. It is not known at this time if what was programmed actually happened. There is no known complete set of New York Symphony programs so all performance information is compiled from a variety of sources.
Project Funder
  • Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
Concert program, 6 Feb 1918, Program ID 10397, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/c0d42aec-1986-4661-9479-b045dde1edeb-0.1