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...evade such triumphant questions as "Well, how would you like to have your daughter marry a nigger?" Once, while investigating a race riot, in Arkansas, he narrowly escaped a mob who had heard he was a Negro investigator, breathlessly boarded a train only to have the conductor say: "You're leaving too soon?they're locking for a yellow nigger." He helped the N. A. A. C. P. publish the first case history of lynching, covering 3,224 cases between 1889 and 1918. And as assistant to N. A. A. C. P. Secretary James Weldon Johnson...
Most symphonic conductors limit their public activity to conducting. It has been hinted that some are not good enough musicians to do anything else. A few, like the late Ossip Gabrilowitsch and the contemporary Jose Iturbi, have been even more famed as instrumental soloists than as orchestral maestros. Still fewer can, like Germany's Richard Strauss, combine the abilities of a brilliant conductor with those of an eminent composer. Burly, slope-shouldered Rumanian Georges Enesco, who replaced John Barbirolli last week as guest conductor of New York's Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, is probably the only famous musical figure...
...soprano. Rose Pauly. who heaved and panted through 15 curtain calls after her Metropolitan debut in the title role. Other objects : the sinister, pasty-faced Klytemnestra of Kerstin Thorborg; the brilliant conducting of Artur Bodanzky. Pauly, whose last year's appearance in a concert version of Elektra under Conductor Artur Rodzinski was the sensation of the Philharmonic-Symphony season (TIME, March 29), prowled the stage like a maimed tigress, managed to give Strauss's frantic, maniacal heroine a quality of grandeur. Undaunted by gut-busting vocal hurdles, she sang, moaned and screamed her part, heating every note with...
Last week, while the Philharmonic's pudgy head violinist, Mishel Piastro, laid down his fiddle and picked up the baton to conduct the orchestral accompaniment, Conductor Enesco laid down his baton and picked up a fiddle to play the solo. Carnegie Hall's audience and the critical pundits found his fiddling in Bach's Concerto in A Minor for Violin and String Orchestra the last word in intelligent interpretation. Composer Enesco will again play a double part on next week's Philharmonic programs when he conducts his own Rumanian Rhapsody...
Difficult to pigeonhole as a musician, Enesco is equally difficult to pigeonhole in the various jobs at which he works. In spite of an absorbing interest in contemporary modernistic scores, he shines brightest as a conductor of romantic German symphonies. As a composer he cannot be identified with any school. "People have been puzzled and annoyed," said good-natured, courtly Enesco in an interview, ''because they have been unable to catalog and classify me in the usual way. They could not decide exactly what type of music mine was. It was not French, after the manner of Debussy...