Word: conductor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest. His place was taken by another little white-haired maestro, this time one unfamiliar to U. S. audiences. The new maestro, who had just defied bombs and mines on the S. S. Vulcama, for his chance to conduct the NBCers, was Belgium's No. i Conductor Désiré Defauw (pronounced Defoe). Driving the orchestra at top speed, with its cut-out open, through a broadcast of light French and Belgian pieces, Maestro Defauw left a few loose bolts & nuts by the wayside. But as he zoomed across the finish line the audience in buff-walled Studio...
Under the auspices of the Pierian Sodality of 1808, the University Orchestra will present a concert featuring the works of Back and Handel in Paine Hall at 8:15 o'clock tomorrow night. Malcolm H. Holmes with G. Wallace Woodworth, acting as guest conductor, will lead the orchestra...
Conducting will be Malcolm R. Holmes '28. while G. Wallace Woodworth '24. will be guest conductor. As a special feature of the program. Putnam Aldrich well known Boston harpsichord soloist, will play two arrangements by Bach. Aldrich has studied abroad with Wanda Landowska and Nadia Bonlanger...
...after a tiff with the Met's management, Artur Bodanzky. still a Wagnerian conductor, resigned to conduct symphonies for Manhattan's Friends of Music. Said he: "I shall not say I am sorry to give up opera." To replace him the Metropolitan imported an unknown named Josef Rosenstock. After five of Rosenstock's feeble exhibitions of batonistic piddle-paddle, Manhattan critics howled him down, sent him scurrying back where he came from. General Manager Gatti-Casazza persuaded Bodanzky to return. For ten more years he went on conducting Wagnerian opera...
Last week, just as the Metropolitan was brushing off its costumes for the opening of the opera season, 61-year-old Conductor Bodanzky died of heart disease. Willy-nilly, he left behind him a reputation as a Wagnerian conductor-one of the world's best. Under his morose, buzzardy stare, Tristans and Götterdämmerungs became not only the best produced, but the most popular operas in the Metropolitan's repertory. Behind the throne of General Manager Edward Johnson, Bodanzky was a great power in the Met, had more to say about who should sing what...