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...Cleveland Artur Rodzinski thrust his baton into the air last week, scurried through the sparkling overture to Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier and the curtain was up on a performance made memorable by Soprano Lotte Lehmann as the wistful, aging Princess...
When Leopold Stokowski flicked his baton in Philadelphia 20 years ago, he had no player more responsive than a handsome blond Dutchman who sat hugging his cello between his knees. Hans Kindler was back in Philadelphia last week, this time as a guest on Stokowski's podium, waving his own commanding stick. He had returned to his oldtime colleagues as an experienced, full-fledged conductor. But he had done more than achieve a conductor's technique. Despite Depression he had succeeded in planting an orchestra in Washington, D. C., making it grow and flower...
...course of things he gets into a steamboat race to Baton Rouge (scene of the nephew's forthcoming execution), and at the very height of the race, who should be see standing on the shore, waiting to be lassoed, but the star witness...
...handles the baton so cleverly and who causes that terrible moment of suspense when he gives his wrist that twist which causes the silvery baton to rise in a high are over the goalpost is W. Benjamin Tabler '36. Although a senior, Tabler will be back next year as a graduate student to continue his work of thrilling the stands...
Both Winthrop and Dunster have engaged syncopating outfits of Jimmie Carmedy, but Jimmy himself will wield the baton at the Puritan frolic. Undaunted, the Dunster committee has announced that their orchestra will be under the direction of Karl Kunze...