Word: conductor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening last week, a towering, bushy-haired young man strode across the stage of Chicago's Orchestra Hall, took his place on the conductor's stand. The applause was cordially perfunctory. But by the time he had led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the bouncing overture to Bedrich Smetana's Bartered Bride, Mozart's Symphony No. 38 (Prague) and Leos Janacek's bone-rattling Taras Bulba, Chicagoans were clapping hard. Thirty-five-year-old Conductor Rafael Kubelik, son of the late great Czech Violinist Jan Kubelik, they decided, was a credit to his father...
...first composition at eight on one of the Kubelik household's six pianos. At 14, he was enrolled at the Prague Conservatory, and in 1934, when Rafael was 20, his father considered him accomplished enough to go along on a world tour as his accompanist and conductor. Purpose of the tour: to rebuild the ruined Kubelik fortunes, help pay off a $125,000 debt...
...tour over and the debt paid, 22-year-old Rafael was appointed resident conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1942, two years after his father's death, he was promoted to permanent conductor. Since then, young Kubelik has built the Czech orchestra from 85 to 120 pieces, raised its critical rating from fair to excellent...
...There isn't much that can be done," remarked Conductor Malcolm H. Holmes, "carrying an academic schedule and only rehearsing twice a week. But beyond that, we make no apologies...
Leaders of the group are Oskar F. Bock, lecturer at the University of Vienna music conductor Felix Molzer, who brought his Vienna Choir Boys to America last spring, and Susanne Polsterer, young Viennese teacher and actress, who will star in tonight's performance...