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With a three-year contract in his pocket, Alfred Wallenstein is in Manhattan finishing off his summer broadcasts as WOR's musical director, signing up soloists who will appear with him next winter. In November he will raise his baton over the Los Angeles Philharmonic...
...pass up American conductors for colorful Europeans who have neither outstanding talent nor great experience. (Even the undeniably gifted Leopold Stokowski had only conducted a symphony orchestra once or twice before in his life, when, in 1909, he was appointed chief of the Cincinnati Symphony.) San Francisco-born Alfred Wallenstein and Kansas-born Karl Krueger lack neither talent nor experience. Wallenstein started his career as an infant-prodigy cellist at the age of six, toured South America as a side show with the late great Anna Pavlova, studied in Germany with famed Cellist Julius Klengel...
When he returned to the U.S. at 24, he was the finest of all U.S. cellists and one of the half-dozen best in the world. But Cellist Wallenstein stuck to orchestra playing, played for seven years with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony as first cellist for his intimate friend and patron, Arturo Toscanini. When Toscanini resigned from the Philharmonic in 1936, Wallenstein resigned...
...Beat of the Master. He took with him a knowledge of symphonic conducting based on a careful study of every flick of Toscanini's baton. After Wallenstein was appointed musical director of Station WOR, discriminating listeners began to notice a Toscanini polish and precision in WOR's Sinfonietta. Even today Alfred Wallenstein, with a passion for clarity and neatness and a curious paddling beat, conducts like a carbon copy of Arturo Toscanini...
Chicago-born Alfred Wallenstein is the fifth-great-grandnephew of famed General Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, who made history by his fighting in the Thirty Years' War, which ruined Europe a good bit more than World War II to date. When he was eight, Alfred asked for a bicycle, could find none with a coaster brake, so picked a shiny cello in Lyon & Healy's window. He became a prodigy, at 15 toured with Dancer Anna Pavlova, later played with the San Francisco and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, was first cellist of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under...