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Said Fellow Conductor Sir Hamilton Harty: "He is understood to be very absent-minded." Said Fellow Conductor Sir Adrian Boult: "We musicians are all a bit absent-minded." Said BBC Television Orchestra Player Cyril Clark: "... A very absent-minded and dreamy individual." Said his wife, Sidonie Goossens, sister of Cincinnati Conductor Eugene Goossens: "He is absent-minded." Impressed by the weight of evidence, Defendant Greenbaum added his own tuppennyworth: "My friends tell me I am very absent-minded...
...50th anniversary as a conductor. Special trains ran from all parts of England. From Cardiff, Wales, in the midst of England's "distressed areas," came 500 Promgoers. The musicians who played in the concert all gave their services free. They were: London's four leading symphonic orchestras (BBC's, the London Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the Queen's Hall), London's three crack choirs (BBC's Choral Society, the Royal Choral Society, the Philharmonic Choir), 16 of England's best concert and opera singers, Sir Henry's great & good friend, Sergei Rachmaninoff...
Britishers will see him on the stage, hear him broadcast more expensively from Radio Normandie, Radio Luxembourg (continental stations which carry sponsored programs in English). In leaving BBC for greener pastures, he follows the lead of Band Leaders Jack Payne, Henry Hall, Variety Director Eric Maschwitz, many another...
...BBC's popular favorites receive plushy publicity, heavy fan mail, much kudos, little cash. Unwatered by freshets of advertising appropriations, British radio pays its stars out of a sustaining budget, and radio listeners often lose their best performers to the prosperous music halls...
Most recent BBC deserter is Organist Reginald Foort, whose fan-letter pile towers highest in British radio. Foort left a seaman's job to play a piano in a Lyons Corner House restaurant,* became Britain's most popular cinema organist. Organist Foort this week was officially on vacation, actually en route to Manhattan to pick up a new organ for an assault on the big money. He has resigned from BBC, will open in November a music-hall tour which guarantees him $13,000 for a year, almost three times his annual BBC earnings...