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HAYDN: SYMPHONY No. 93 IN D MAJOR (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia: 6 sides). A famous Haydn conductor directs a top-flight Haydn symphony in top form...
Among the most fervent saviors of the Saugatuck is bushy-headed Composer Edwin Gerschefski, who lives with his wife at Meriden, Conn., hard by the threatened river. Broadcast last week on Conductor Howard Barlow's CBS "Everybody's Music" program was Composer Gerschefski's contribution to the great Connecticut cause: a "Save the Saugatuck" Symphony. Subtitles of the flashily orchestrated symphony's four rather noisy movements: 1) Natural Ruggedness; 2) Robot Controlled Precision without Escape; 3) Natural Flow; 4) Dynamite Accomplished Perversion and Artificiality of Every Description...
MOZART : PARIS OVERTURE, K. 31 la (Sinfonietta conducted by Alfred Wallenstein; Columbia). A rising young U. S. conductor proves his mettle in an excellent performance of Mozart's "lost" overture...
...Hollywood Boulevard, Mrs. Karl Krueger, wife of the conductor of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, was confronted by one Charles E. McDonald, estranged husband of her companion and maid. Without much ado, Mr. McDonald shot her three times with an automatic. Mrs. Krueger was removed to a hospital, Charles McDonald to a police station. His explanation: "She broke up my home...
Customers of hot-weather music have no very intense convictions about what is played to them. This fact is known to every conductor, every musician who plays Beethoven's Fifth Symphony with his eyes shut. In Chicago's Ravinia Park last fortnight, to give the program committee some ideas for next summer's series by the Chicago Symphony, questionnaires were handed to the 8,000 people who went to concerts during the week. Only 550 bothered to answer the questionnaire...