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...conductor: 27-year-old German-born Erich Leinsdorf, promoted from the ranks of the assistant conductors where he made several sensational appearances last year...
...conductor: wiry U. S.-born Edwin McArthur, long familiar as accompanist to Kirsten Flagstad, who made his much-talked-about debut last week conducting a performance of Lohengrin in which Soprano Flagstad sang...
...concerts this afternoon and tomorrow night will be conducted by the Anglo-Belgian director, Mr. Eugene Goosens, known in this country for his work in Rochester and Cincinnati. Despite the obvious fact that Mr. Goosens waves the longest stick seen here in recent years, he is essentially a quiet conductor, in marked contrast to the Orchestra's other guests of late. And as leader of the Orchestra, he is firm and competent in securing what he wants...
...conductor appears as composer in two so-called "Nature Poems," orchestrated last year from a set of three written in 1919. This curiously un-vital music consists of a slight Pastoral and a more amusing Bacchanal, composed in a rather wayward French style, uncommonly exotic for an Englishman. The treatment of the orchestra is less brilliant than one might expect...
...mostly a representation of an Alpine waterfall, is very fine and strangely restless in mood, with admirable orchestral effects; but the other three movements are quite bad. Still the first half of the concert is well worth hearing; and it is a pleasure to have Mr. Goosens as guest conductor...