Coates's "Hairy Ape"

Coates's "Hairy Ape"

Back to the U. S. for his third season as guest conductor of Manhattan's Stadium Concerts last week came Albert Coates, conductor of London's Symphony. With him he brought Launcelot, his new symphony based on Arthurian legend. When questioned about it, Composer Coates answered newsmen brusquely, told them Launcelot was romantic in conception--therefore in the tradition of all true opera--that he had little sympathy with jazz, cacophony, dissonances, or other "modernistic" effects. Yes, he had been conducting in London, Berlin, Paris the past year; he was pleased with the reception of his one-act opera Samuel Pepys in Munich; his new opera Asshurbanipal is scheduled for Berlin next season. He will go to Russia in November for two months as director of the Moscow Opera. If he likes it there, he may stay permanently. Then Conductor Coates began talking impetuously of something that was evidently of greatest importance and interest to him. He had seen Playwright Eugene O'Neill, had secured permission to put The Hairy Ape into operatic form. But the permission was only the first small step: "In composing music one cannot work as in a factory. The producing comes only after one has become the thing itself. I will have to live The Hairy Ape for perhaps a year before I'll be competent to write music which will be comparable to the text. . . ." In spite of his distrust of and distaste for jazz he admitted there will probably be such themes and variations in his treatment of O'Neill's coalhole drama. San Mateo. Meanwhile towards California sped Willem van Hoogstraten who had conducted with varying success through the first 21 days of the Manhattan Stadium's eight weeks. In the Woodland Theatre at Hillsborough he will be the fourth guest conductor of San Mateo's summer series, given under the aegis of California's Fleishhackers, Crockers. Armsbys. McNears, and Amadeo Peter Giannini. Before Conductor van Hoogstraten, Gaetano Merola. Maestro Bernardino Molinari, Artur Rodzinski conducted this year at San Mateo. Following him will be E. Fernandez Arbos. for 25 years conductor of Madrid's Symphony. Conductor van Hoogstraten will lead twice at San Mateo. twice at San Francisco.

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