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Last week sad-eyed, stolid Hindemith, who is having a curiously unmanaged and unpublicized U. S. tour, bobbed up in Chicago to conduct the U. S. premiere of his latest work, Symphonic Dances, with the Chicago Symphony. In his enthusiasm, Conductor Hindemith tore a page of his score, lost his baton, ended by conducting with his fists. Critics approved his new work unanimously. Also present on a nearly all-Hindemith program was Chamber Music No. 1, a suite for small orchestra whose last movement, a macabre fox trot, is supposed to depict the hysteria of War-torn Europe. Polite Chicagoans...
...living playing in dance bands, cafés and cinema orchestras. A diligent student, he spent his spare time plowing through courses at the Frankfurt Conservatory, studying violin, viola and composition. In 1915 he became head violinist of the Frankfurt Opera House, rose to the post of conductor. Among German composers his pre-Hitler reputation was second only to that of aging Richard Strauss...
Last week, as the winter symphonic season approached its end, boards of directors and impresarios were either doleful or delighted over prospects for 1938-39. Deepest dumps were in Portland, Ore., where the 27-year-old Portland Symphony, in spite of assiduous nursing by Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten, gave its last concert and disbanded for lack of funds. Loudest whooping came from Manhattan, where NBC officials announced proudly that famed Maestro Toscanini had signed up for another three years of expensive winter symphonic broadcasts...
Pittsburgh, dazzled with its brand-new $250,000 symphony orchestra, formed last fall, had been trying on conductors like a rejuvenated dowager trying on new hats. In the 'nineties and the early 1900s Pittsburgh boasted a respectable symphony orchestra under genial Victor Herbert (Babes in Toyland, Kiss Me Again), and sternly mustached Emil Paur. In 1910 the orchestra collapsed, remained collapsed for 16 years. Subsequent revival, on a shoe-string budget under Conductor Antonio Modarelli, was halfhearted...
...close of the 1936-37 season last spring, Manager Specter and his socialite executive board set out to get 1) a stout purse, 2) a first-rate conductor, 3) top-notch musicians, announced a drive for $300,000, proposed to import seven well-known conductors for guest appearances. The drive was a success. To Pittsburgh went successively: 1) gaunt, funereal Otto Klemperer, conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; 2) Cincinnati's Eugene Goossens; 3) Fritz Reiner; 4) Mexico's Carlos Chavez; 4) NBC's Walter Damrosch; 6) Michel Gusikoff, former concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra...