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...Rittenburg had just taken the baton from Paul Grand, and was rounding the curve when he slipped and fell. When he got up, the Crimson, which had been a close third was a distant fourth. Fourth it remained, too, despite a fine anchor leg by Al Howe. Columbia won, with Princeton second, and Yale third...
Budapest-born George Szell took up Cleveland's baton six years ago on one condition: his board of directors must give him "the means of making this orchestra second to none." Since then, he has increased the orchestra's size from 82 to 96, and hired a score or so of musicians (among them Concertmaster Josef Gingold from Detroit) from other organizations. Today, Conductor Szell is content: the Cleveland personnel is "as good as any conductor could wish for." With a whopping $5,000,000 endowment and willing contributors to the annual deficit drive (this year...
Strauss officially took over the new post during half-time of the Yale game, when Hastings formally handed him the baton...
...theater with the desire to make art." For two weeks he coached the singers in Italian bel canto, worked with the orchestra, sweetening a pianissimo here, strengthening an accent there, whipping up a tempo to a swirling climax. Last week, on opening night, he lowered his baton on Puccini's Tosca...
EDINBURGH'S sixth annual festival opened last fortnight (see Music) with a speech by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. But the festivities really got under way when a violent little man with a spiky beard raised his baton over the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and brought it down on the first beat of Sibelius' Symphony No. 7 in C Major. Sir Thomas Beecham, Bart, was on the podium, where he belonged...