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Most indispensable of these whippers-into-shape, however, was a bouncing, imperial-bearded British oldster, Sir Thomas Beecham, who has for many years served as Covent Garden's artistic director, England's No. 1 maestro (and one of the six or seven most eminent in the world), Conductor Beecham has been conducting opera and furiously fostering operatic activity for nearly a generation. He has lost fortunes on it, has fed it generously to hungry audiences and stuffed it down less eager throats. A pioneer in presenting new works, he has given Britishers their first taste of more...
...This season's rabbit: an unknown, good-looking, 26-year-old,Polish-born soprano named Margaret Kubatzki. Soprano Kubatzki, making her official Covent Garden debut in a role previously sung by the eminent Kirsten Flagstad (Senta in Wagner's The Flying Dutch-man), created a sensation. Said Conductor Beecham: "One night last October I was turning the various knobs of a wireless ... I heard a magnificent voice. . . . When I went to Germany to make records of the Magic Flute I enquired of every eminent German musician I met as to what he knew about Kubatzki. None of them...
...five children, and taken a fling at Tin Pan Alley (Yon Are the Reason for My Love Song), had decided on a plunge into serious composition. The result, a symphonic poem, The Last Knight, based on some mystical verses by the late G. K. Chesterton, got solicitous treatment from Conductor Monteux, Composer Davis' brother-in-law. Like the now classic Negro Rhapsody of John Powell which followed it, Mrs, Davis' opus was agreeably straightforward. Her knight errant did a good deal of pale loitering and sounded a great deal like the hero of Richard Strauss's Heldenleben...
...Ludmilla" Glinka *Andante (Second Movement) from the "Surprise"Symphony, No 94 Haydn *Finale from "Suite Cinderella" Eric Coates Arrival of the Prince and his Attendants *March of the Smugglers and Gypsy Dance from "Carmen" Bizet *Overture to "Tannhauser' Wagner Orphean Club of Lasalle Junior College George Sawyer Dunham, Conductor. *"Estudiantina" Waltzes Waldt-Eufol *The Toy Trumpet Scott *Czardas from Coppellia Delibes *Selections checked (") are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...this concert, the Glee Club will be directed during the first half of the program by Edward L. Barnes '38, of Chicago; and during the second half by George W. Phillips '39, of New York. Conductor of the group is G. Wallace Woodworth '24, of the Music Department...