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Riders on a drafty Mass. Avenue trolley car were startled out of their numbness last night by harsh sounds, of altercation coming from behind the green curtain that separates conductor from lowly customer...
Helen Jepson, Wilfred Pelletier (Sun. 9 p. m. CBS), Metropolitan Opera soprano and conductor, in an hour of music dedicated to Ford cars and the memory of Poet Robert Burns...
...very large numerical majority of stockholders in American corporations has a dangerously inadequate representation on their corporate boards. . . . The average modern director does not direct the course of the corporation to a much greater extent than a conductor directs the course of his trolley car. Both of them go along with the vehicle ; and one of them is often present only for the sake of the ride...
Chicago music-lovers, remarkably constant in their devotion to Conductor Stock, are also remarkably devoted to the memory of Conductor Thomas. Every year since Conductor Thomas' death, a memorial concert has been held in his honor. Last week dignified 66-year-old Stock ambled to his place on the stage of Chicago's long-used Orchestra Hall to commemorate for the 34th time the death of his predecessor. Behind him sat 2,500 rapt Chicagoans, many of them oldsters who had heard their first overture played under Thomas' energetic baton. Solemnly they listened while white-haired Stock...
Thirty-four years ago, when Conductor Stock left his place among the orchestra's viola players to succeed Thomas as the Chicago Symphony's head man, Chicago concertgoers were skeptical. During his first year Chicago newspapers printed scathing articles about the need for a more eminent conductor. But patient, plodding Stock stuck to his guns. In the many seasons since then he has made himself a reputation as one of the topflight U. S. conductors. Genial Frederick Stock prefers, and conducts best, the works of the German romantics, but he gives his audience a more varied and balanced...