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Last week Mexico's No. 1 musician, wiry, dynamic Carlos Chavez, entered NBC's Studio 8-H to conduct the first of two Saturday night broadcasts. First to follow famed Maestro Toscanini at the head of NBC's new $600,000-a-year radio orchestra, Conductor Chavez drew a studio audience in which the mink coats and white ties of previous broadcasts were conspicuously absent. Programmed were two of Conductor Chavez' own compositions: the energetic, Stravinsky-influenced Sinfonia de Antigona; and the Sinfonia India, in which Composer Chavez uses several authentic Mexican Indian themes...
Making the trip will be 55 of the best Club talent, under the direction of Archibald T. Davison '06, professor of Choral Music. G. Wallace Woodworth '24, instructor in Music and regular conductor is indisposed and unable to accompany the group...
...shin bone last week was tiny, historic Ravello. There, in the snug, age-whitened Villa Cimbrone, overlooking the blue Mediterranean from its mountain perch, two people were trying not to notice that all the world was watching them. The man: snowy-haired, limelight-loving, 55-year-old Conductor Leopold Stokowski, whose American wife divorced him last December. The woman: Hollywood's No. 1 recluse, Greta Garbo...
...ready for release, and before such events Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pressagents invariably concoct romantic blurbs. But when last December "Stoky" drank fond farewells with Greta in Manhattan on the eve of her departure for Europe, most people agreed that something more than publicity was in the air. When Conductor Stokowski himself sailed for Italy last month, correspondents got orders to keep their eyes peeled...
...Next day Conductor Stokowski received two U. S. newspaper correspondents, but again refused to answer questions about Actress Garbo. "I have a right to my private life when I want it," said he. "One must think in solitude to create. That is what I am doing now." The reporters tried another tack, asked him his favorite cinema stars. Stoky chose Charles Boyer and John Barrymore. Asked for his choice in actresses, he shook his head, "Let's go to another subject...