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...Another brother, Federico, the youngest, is a symphony orchestra conductor and composer (Paul Gauguin...
...world. Although it has been rivaled in recent years by at least two other U.S. orchestras,* it has held its place fairly steadily for more than half a century. Only once in its history did it fall behind the front rank, and that was when its greatest conductor, razor-faced, German-born Karl Muck, was charged with espionage by New England patrioteers and interned during the World...
Like many a successful conductor's wife, Natalya Konstantinovna was a woman of means. Together they financed an orchestra for Koussevitzky to practice on, and gave a series of concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The Koussevitzky Concerts began to catch on with the Russian public. The Koussevitzkys chartered a ferryboat, made a tour of the Volga. By 1910 Koussevitzky was the most widely-known maestro in Tsarist Russia. Meanwhile he had started a publishing house for music by contemporary Slavic composers, published for the first time (thus, incidentally, sparing himself the performance royalties) works by such famed artists...
...from Philadelphia last week was the symphony's other co-conductor, sad-eyed Leopold Stokowski, resting in Beverly Hills, Calif, after a less industrious but equally eventful European summer in the company of Greta Garbo. Since Great Conductor Stokowski's blow-off with the symphony directors in 1934, when he relinquished his post as music director, he and co-Conductor Otmandy have been nominal equals...
After Mr. Ormandy's return, the directors announced: 1) that Conductor Stokowski had signed up for eleven concerts next spring, and 2) that "in recognition of musical achievement" the post of music director would be revived for Conductor Ormandy. For happy Violinist Ormandy this meant more pay, official confirmation that he is Philadelphia's first fiddle...