Selling Orchestral Music in the Vaudeville Age: The Duncan-Damrosch Tours, 1908–1911

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-98
Author(s):  
CHANTAL FRANKENBACH
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Orchestral Music ◽  
The Third ◽  
Daily Press ◽  
Revival Movement ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Mass Entertainment

AbstractBetween 1908 and 1911, New York Symphony Orchestra conductor Walter Damrosch engaged the modern dancer Isadora Duncan to perform with his orchestra in New York and on three tours of the Midwest. Posing considerable risk to his reputation as an elite conductor, this unusual alliance grew in part from his concert manager's wish to compete with the Salomé dance craze raging in vaudeville halls across the country. Damrosch's “pioneering spirit” allowed him a genuine appreciation of Duncan's expressive, transcendent dancing. Yet for his critics, the shockingly under-dressed dancer, just back from her conquest of Europe, represented yet another sensational Salomé eager to capitalize on the popular profanities of market-driven entertainment. Music critics and Protestant clergymen from St. Louis to Boston berated Damrosch for what they saw as an immoral capitulation to mass consumerism and a desecrating abuse of the sacred repertoire he guarded—a repertoire defined in part by its distance from dancing. This article draws on critiques in the daily press, Damrosch's personal papers, and scholarship in dance and religious studies to situate Damrosch's marketing experiment with Duncan in the wider context of Progressive-era devotional life, where similar concessions to mass entertainment arose in the urban revival movement of the Third Great Awakening. Damrosch's recourse to Duncan's “barefoot dancing”—oddly akin to the tactics of big tent revivalists espousing Muscular Christianity and epitomized by Billy Sunday's pulpit pantomimes—illuminates the collision of spiritual and economic concerns that shaped both musical and ecclesiastical arenas of the American “sacred.”

Conversations in Leningrad, 1988

Tempo ◽  
1989 ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Claire Polin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Choral Music ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Children's Theatre ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
New York Philharmonic ◽  
The Third ◽  
Violin Music ◽  
The Many

Certainly it was the year to visit the USSR, as one rubbed shoulders with pre-Summit reporters awaiting Reagan/Gorbachev, and pilgrims celebrating the millennium of Christianity in Russia. Wandering up the Nevsky Prospekt, you saw musicians hurrying with instrument cases in hand; and whichever way you crossed the Neva or the canals, the babel of language sounded like a session at the United Nations. As Tikhon Khrennikov (still Chairman of the Composers Union 40 years after its notorious 1948 Congress) pointed out in his welcoming address at the opening concert, the Festival's purpose was ‘for building spiritual bridges between nations using music as the unique and indispensable means of communication’. Stylistic restrictions were withdrawn so that listeners would get an unusually broad idea of the ‘many-sided panorama of modern musical art’. Thus, not only ‘serious’ music but also pop, jazz, folk, and traditional musics were performed. Having attended the previous two Festivals, it was very interesting to observe the progressive attitude of the Third. Not only was there more of everything, but more variety: not only symphonic, chamber, and choral music events, but also organ recitals, modern violin music, opera, children's theatre, a song evening, and even one for light music. Not only did the best Soviet conductors and performers participate, but also the New York Philharmonic, the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, jazz groups of the USSR and elsewhere, and the British avant-garde vocal group ‘Electric Phoenix’. Although the concerts were heavily weighted with Soviet works, still almost 40 countries were represented (from Cuba to Mongolia) with works by more than 150 living composers.

Issues Surrounding the Development of the Neo-Nazi Scene in East Berlin

2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Brothers
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
East Berlin ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third Reich

The rise of neo-Nazism in the capital of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) was not inspired by a desire to recreate Hitler's Reich, but by youthful rebellion against the political and social culture of the GDR's Communist regime. This is detailed in Fuehrer-Ex: Memoirs of a Former Neo-Naxi by Ingo Hasselbach with Tom Reiss (Random House, New York, 1996). This movement, however, eventually worked towards returning Germany to its former 'glory' under the Third Reich under the guidance of 'professional' Nazis.

scholarly journals AB0474 THE USE OF NONSTEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS (NSAIDS) IN WOMEN WITH ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS (AS) DURING PREGNANCY

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 1264.2-1265
Author(s):  
O. Krichevskaya ◽  
T. Dubinina ◽  
E. Ilinykh ◽  
S. Glukhova ◽  
A. Demina
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Nsaid Therapy ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Average Daily Dose ◽  
Time Data ◽  
The Third ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Daily Dose ◽  
Adherence To Therapy

Background:NSAIDs remain the first-line drugs in treatment of AS. During pregnancy, COX-2 non-selective NSAIDs are allowed for intake up to 32 weeks, but the question of the dose-dependent effect of NSAIDs on fetal organogenesis in the 1st trimester and on fetal kidney function and the increased risk of bleeding in childbirth when taken in the second half of pregnancy continues to be discussed. At the same time, data on the effectiveness of NSAIDs, including their low and medium doses, during pregnancy are extremely small.Objectives:to describe the frequency of using NSAIDs during pregnancy, to determine relationship between the dose of NSAIDs, adherence to therapy with the activity of AS.Methods:50 pregnancies were followed in 49 pregnant women with confirmed AS (modified New York criteria, 1984). The average age of the pts was 31.6 ± 4.9 years, the duration of the disease was 134.4 ± 85.8 months. The visits were conducted at 10-11, 20-21, and 31-32 weeks of pregnancy. The BASDAI in the month of conception and in the trimesters (trim.) of pregnancy was: 1,4[0,6; 3,3]; 2,3[1,2; 4,4]; 2,8[1,4; 4,2] and 2,2[1,6; 4,0], respectively. The level of nocturnal back pain according to the NRS in the first, second and third trim. was: 3.2±2.0; 5.4±2.5 and 5.2±2.6, respectively. The drug of choice was ibuprofen at a maximum daily dose of 1200 mg, its withdrawal - no later than 32 weeks of pregnancy.Adherence to NSAID therapy was defined as the ratio of the actual dose taken to the prescribed dose; an indicator of less than 80% was regarded as non-adherence to therapy. The total dose of NSAIDs was determined by the NSAID intake index (M. Dougados, 2001). The” actual daily dose” of ibuprofen was the sum of the doses of ibuprofen taken, divided by the number of actual days of taking the drug. The “average daily dose” was defined as the sum of the ibuprofen doses taken, divided by the number of days in the trimester.Results:At the time of conception and in the first, second and third trim. of pregnancy, NSAIDs were taken 23 (46%), 20 (40%), 30 (60%) and 21 (43.8%) women, respectively. The NSAID intake index, the actual and average daily dose of ibuprofen are shown in the Table 1.month of conceptiontrim. 1trim. 2trim. 3the actual daily dose, mg-700[425; 800]800[400; 1000]750[400; 1200]the average daily dose, mg-158[87,9; 307,7]355,1[138,5; 685,7]580[320; 1200]NSAIDs intake index28,6 [16,7; 50]5,8 [2,9; 11,8]15,5 [4,7; 30,9]24,4 [9,5; 50]The index of NSAID intake in the first trim. was lower than before pregnancy and in the second half of gestation (p<0.05 compared to the month of conception, II and III trim.). The average daily dose of ibuprofen was also lower in the first trim. than in the second and third trim. (p<0.05), while the actual daily dose in the second trim. was higher than in the first and third trim. (p<0.05 in all cases).There was no correlation between BASDAI AS activity, the level of nocturnal pain and the ibuprofen intake index, likewise the fact of NSAID withdrawal throughout pregnancy. In addition, there were no differences in BASDAI levels and back pain in women with a subjective need for NSAIDs, who did and did’t take ibuprofen.50% of women were committed to NSAID therapy in the first trim., 43.5% in the second trim., and 67.4% in the third trim. In pts with non-adherence to NSAID therapy, the BASDAI level was higher than in those who followed the recommendations of the rheumatologist throughout pregnancy: in the first trim. – 3.8[3.4; 4.7] and 1.7[0.8; 2.2]; in the second trim. - 3[2.3; 4.6] and 1.4[0.8; 2.7]; in the third trim. - 3.1[2.1; 4.0] and 1.7[1.1; 4.0], p<0.05 in all cases. However, women with adherence > 80% were initially less active and NSAIDs were prescribed “on demand”, which increased their compliance.Conclusion:intake of ibuprofen in low doses does not affect the activity of AS. Due to the ongoing discussion about the effect of NSAIDs on neonatal outcomes, further international studies are required for development an optimal treatment regimen during pregnancy with a possible extension of the indications for the appointment of TNF inhibitors (BASDAI<4).Disclosure of Interests:None declared.

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