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...Hungarian March, "Rakoczy"Berlioz *Overture to "Orpheus in Hades" Offenbach *Minuet (for Strings) Bolzoni *Marche Slave Tchaikovsky Wheeler Beckett, Guest Conductor *Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner Symphony No. 1, in C minor Beckett Burroughs Newsboys Harmonica Band "Night Froth," Rhapsody Peggy Stuart Fantasia, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" Churchill-Bodge "Up the Street," March Morse *Selections, checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
Wise undergraduates, remembering May 11, rushed up the steps for shelter, while the general public remained star-scattered on the grass. Irving G. Fine 1G, conductor, saved the day for Harvard by hurriedly cancelling the last three numbers and inviting all members of the university onto the steps to join in the college songs. Mindful of the downpour which waterlogged the ivories two weeks ago, Glee Club members carried the piano to safety...
Principal reasons for the dearth of famous U. S.-born maestros have been: 1) a lack of places where the young U. S. conductor can cut his teeth; 2) snobbishness. In Germany, where conducting is as specialized a profession as brain surgery, conductors are systematically trained and systematically advanced in their careers. The neophyte, having mastered several musical instruments and taken a complete course in musical composition, enters a conductors' class at the konservatorium, where he studies the symphonic and operatic classics and learns how to shake a stick at an orchestra. Then he graduates. But that is only...
...Assistant conductorships in the few permanent U. S. opera companies are very seldom awarded to U. S.-born aspirants, full-fledged conductorships almost never. U. S. audiences, long accustomed to judging other types of musicians impartially on their merits, still flock more eagerly to hear a fourth-rate foreign conductor than to hear a fairly well-equipped and conscientious native maestro. Boards of directors of U. S. symphony orchestras, sometimes influenced by socialite patronesses, usually demand colorful or famous personalities. Current in orchestral circles is the remark of a well-known pianist's wife:* "When a conductor in Europe...
Because it requires so many performers, the Requiem is seldom performed. But last week a large audience flocked to Rochester's Eastman Theatre and listened spellbound while an enormous aggregation of players and singers thundered it out under the baton of Conductor Herman H. Genhart. No one swooned. The performance of Composer Berlioz' barbaric, brooding score was acclaimed as one of the most important events, and certainly the loudest, in Rochester's musical history...