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1918 Feb 20; Mar 07 / Subscription Season / Damrosch

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  • New York Symphony
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"S" = Soloist
"A" = Assisting Artist
Dates / Event Types / Venues
  • Feb 20, 1918 / 2:20PM / Subscription Season / Carnegie Hall / Manhattan, NY
  • Mar 7, 1918 / 2:30PM / Subscription Season / Carnegie Hall / Manhattan, NY
Notes
SSONY presents Margaret Anglin in the "Medea" of Euripides (Gilbert Murray Translations), with Special Music Composed by Walter Damrosch [World Premiere]

CAST OF CHARACTERS:
Nurse of Medea - Margaret Hoffman
Children of Jason and Medea - Rose Bikoff, Mildred Maloney
Attendant on the Children - Alfred Fisher
Leader - Florence Wollersen
Women of Corinth - Diantha Pattison, Alice Martin, Eleanor Hutchinson, Rachel Morton Harris, Mrs. R. Brown, Helen Levinson, Esther M. Waterman, Elizabeth Lennox, Ocy Shoff, Mata Heineman, Marthena Barrie, Solvejg La Mard, Bathsheba Askowith, Mary Jordan
Medea, Daughter of Aeites King of Colchis - Miss Anglin
Creon, Ruler of Corinth - Mitchell Harris
Jason, Chief of the Argonauts - Fred Eric
Aegeus, King of Athens - Benjamin Kauser
Messenger - Marc Loebel
Attendants, Soldiers, Followers, etc.

The Scene is laid in Corinth
The New York Symphony Orchestra, Walter Damrosch, Conductor
First Soloist - Mary Jordan
Second Soloist - Rachel Morton Harris

Settings designed by Livingston Platt
Play produced by Miss Anglin
Howard Lindsay, Director
Miss Anglin wishes to acknowledge valuable assistance rendered her by Miss Alice Knauser, also to Mr. Joseph Wicks, and Mr. Gustav Weidhaas for execution of settings and properties.
Costumes executed by Mrs. Fralich
Manager for Miss Anglin, James Shesgreen

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.
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  • Leon Levy Foundation
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Concert program, 20 Feb 1918, Program ID 10399, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/f5535972-8a66-49f7-892f-16b890bef496-0.1

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