Word: wallenstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...given in the U.S. Put on in condensed, hour-long versions by Manhattan's station WOR in cooperation with the Treasury Department (to boost war bond sales), broadcast by a nationwide Mutual network (Thursdays, 8 to 9 p.m. E.W.T.), the series is a brainchild of Alfred Wallenstein, WOR's ebullient, businesslike music director...
...music, to canny, brilliant Alfred Wallenstein, musical director of Mutual's Manhattan station WOR, who recognized that for good radio musicianship the distinction between "classic" and "modern" music has ceased to exist...
Newark, N. J.'s Station WOR hired him for a series of Sunday-night half-hours (Mutual network) of purest Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, with an orchestra conducted by WOR's Music Director Alfred Wallenstein. Never before, thought Director Wallenstein, had a single station presented a series of such high calibre...
...Alfred Wallenstein, sometime concert cellist, has been musical director of Newark, N. J.'s station WOR (Mutual network) for five years. Long ago he disabused the station's management of their theory that Bach was too high-brow for their listeners; long ago he began putting new compositions on the air. Last week Director Wallenstein for the 300th time gave a work its radio debut...