Word: molinari
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philharmonic-Symphony have been dull this season. Conductor Willem Mengelberg seemed sleepy. The aging Walter Damrosch was uninspired. Then, because Sir Thomas Beecham was unable to come, because Toscanini was late, there followed a string of substitute conductors - Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Fritz Reiner, Arthur Honegger, Hans Lange, Bernardino Molinari. The results were adequate but not memorable. Yet the houses were sold-out. Subscribers had bought in advance for the entire season so that they should by no sorry slip miss Toscanini...
...Fifth Symphony, Sibelius' "Finlandia." He gave them a novelty-Roussel's Concerto, pleasant and unimportant. Philadelphians held their thumbs and waited. Stokowski is to be with them until late November, back again in late March. Able guest conductors are to be sandwiched in between- Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Bernardino Molinari, Sir Thomas Beecham, Clemens Krauss from Frankfurt (in his U. S. debut). For most Philadelphians, however, only Stokowski can make big music, big surprises...
...Louis, the Symphony Society summarized its season, professed itself well-pleased with its six guest conductors, announced the same varied fare for next season-with Emil Oberhoffer conducting the first four weeks, Bernardino Molinari the next four, then two other guests to be announced later...
...distinguished musicians loomed, last week, in the U. S. They are: 1) Ignace Jan Paderewski; 2) Sir Thomas Beecham, leader of the London Symphony orchestra, guest conducting for the New York Philharmonic; 3) Maurice Ravel, renowned French composer, guest conducting for the Boston and other Symphonies; and 4) Bernardino Molinari, conductor of the famed Augusteo Orchestra at Rome, who will lead the St. Louis Symphony through a series of 15 concerts. Boasted the great Molinari: "In Rome I have 90 sopranos and 70 contraltos always available...
Conductor Bernardino Molinari of the Augusteo Orchestra, Rome, arrived (on the Conte Biancamano) in Manhattan where later in the season he will appear as guest conductor with the Philharmonic Orchestra. He stayed a day making arrangements with his manager, granting interviews, and set out for St. Louis to lead the city's symphony in fifteen concerts...