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The MacMillan EncyclopEdia Of Music And Musicians In One Volume-I, 1938
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1bers of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. The management is in the hands of the orchestra members, and is run on a coöperative basis, the net profits on each season being divided among them. The orchestra varies in size from ninety to one hundred men. From 1930 to 1934 the manager was Arthur Judson; the next two years it was in the hands of Mr. Huff of the Philadelphia Forum; and since 1937, under the management of Alfred Reginald Allen. Dedication ceremonies were held on July 8, 1930, with the orchestra under the baton of Alexander Smallens, the regular conductor; for the first three years the programs were entirely symphonic in nature. In 1933 operatic performances were added, Smallens also conducting those performances, while the opera company itself is sponsored by the Philadelphia Summer Concerts Association. Operatic performances have included Tales of Hoffmann, Lucia di Lammermoor, Il Trovatore, Carmen, Aida, La Tosca and other operas from the standard repertoire. Eight weeks is the usual duration of the summer season. Guest conductors have included Alfred Coates, Ernest Knoch, Eugene Ormandy, Josef Pasternack, Willem Van Hoogstraten, Fritz Reiner, Henry Hadley, Sandor Hermati, David Mendoza, Cesar Sodero, Hans Kindler, Erno Rapee, Howard Barlow and José Iturbi, etc. Many outstanding artists have appeared as soloists or in the operatic works including Margaret Matzenauer, Frederick Jagel, Paul Althouse, Muriel Kerr, Sophie Braslau, the Hall Johnson Negro Choir, Katherine Meisle, Rose Bampton, and several groups of dancers for special performances.
3Robin Woman, The, see Shanewis.
5Robineau, Alexandre, 18th century amateur violinist and composer, pupil of Gaviniés, an ecclesiastic whose works include a concerto and sonatas for violin.
7Robinson, Anastasia, English singer, born about 1698; died Bevis Mount, Southampton, Apr., 1755. Her father becoming blind, she was compelled to earn her livelihood. She studied with Dr. Croft, Pier Giuseppe Sandoni and a singer called "The Baroness," and appeared in many operas in London, including those of Handel. She retired in 1724, having been secretly married to the Earl of Peterborough, who did not, however, avow it until near his death.
9Robinson, Clarence Cramer, American composer, conductor, tenor, organist and music teacher, born New York City, Oct. 22, 1879. He studied with Emil Liebling and Frederick Root, and became a concert singer, organist and music teacher. His compositions include organ and church music, songs, part songs and choruses.
11Robinson, Edith, English violinist, born Manchester, Oct. 29, 1867; she studied with Adolph Brodsky at the Leipzig Conservatory, and with César Thomson at Liége, and then played in a Trio in Leipzig with Julius Klengel and Fritz von Bose, was a soloist in Germany and a quartet player in Manchester. She taught at the Royal Manchester College of Music, and her ladies' quartet was the first to give all of Beethoven's quartets as a series.
13Robinson, Franklin Whitman, American organist, writer on musical subjects and teacher, born New York, June 27, 1875; pupil of W. R. Johnston, H. H. Wetzler, W. K. Bassford and Max Spicker, and later with MacDowell and Rubner at Columbia University. He became organist at the Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia, and teacher at the Institute of Musical Art, New York, where he originated a method stressing ear-training. His writings include Aural Harmony.
15Robinson, Gertrude Ina, contemporary American harpist and composer, born Waterloo, Ia.; studied at Paris with Alphonse Hasselmans, and became a church harpist in New York. Her works include harp music for educational pieces for that instrument.
17Robinson, John, English organist and piano-teacher, born in 1682; died April 30, 1762.
19Robinson, Joseph, Irish conductor and singer, born Aug. 20, 1815; died Aug. 23, 1898. When eight years old he was a chorister at St. Patrick's, Dublin, and then sang in many leading Dublin choirs. In 1834 he founded the Antient Concert Society there, and remained its conductor for twenty-nine years. In 1837 he also conducted at the University Choral Society, at the Cork Exhibition in 1852, and at the International Exhibition in 1853. He also taught, with his wife, the former Fanny Arthur, at the Irish Academy of Music, and in 1876 established the Dublin Musical Society, which he conducted until 1888. Mendelssohn wrote Hear My Prayer for him.
21Robinson, Mrs. Joseph, English composer, born in 1831; died in 1879. Among her compositions are a contata God is Love, and various songs.
23Robinson, Rina, English contralto and teacher, born London, Aug. 4, 1872. She studied at the Metropolitan School of Music, Trinity College of Music, the Guildhall School of Music, and privately with Charles Santley and Albert Visetti. She then became a teacher at Huddersfield College of Music, founder of the Shrewsbury Amateur Operatic Society, and a well-known oratorio singer.
25Robinson, Robert, American violin maker, born in Wood County, O., in 1850. After studying with his father, he travelled about the country, working for many violin makers; then settled in Portland, Ore., where he has made nearly two hundred fine instruments on the Guarnerius and Stradivarius patterns.
27Robinson, Thomas, 16th century English musician and composer. He was music teacher to the Princess Anne of Denmark at Elsinore, and is best known for his Schoole of Musicke; wherein is taught the true fingering of the Lute, Pandora, Orpharion and Viol da Gamba, which was published at London in 1603. The work contains thirty-three lute pieces and ten viol
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