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Danicle Amfitheatrof will appear as guest conductor this evening in Sanders Theater as the Boston Symphony Orchestra returns to its home city. He will lead the orchestra again on Friday and Saturday, and will make another appearance in the shorter series the following Monday evening and Tuesday afternoon. For all concerts the program will be the same except that tonight Dukas's "L'Apprenti Sorcier" will replace the "American Panorama...
...Amfitheatrof opened the present season of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra as associate conductor under Dimitri Mitropoulis...
...unpretentious composition by a celebrated French composer. The piece was called Bolero. Performed previously in Paris, it was not considered one of its composer's masterpieces, and Maestro Toscanini had programmed it inconspicuously as an hors d'oeuvre to solider stuff. To the surprise of conductor and orchestra. the staid audience stomped, clapped and howled its approval. Within the next three years approximately 500 performances of the work were given by U. S. symphony orchestras, thousands more by every conceivable combination of instruments, from jazz bands to harmonica ensembles. Tin Pan Alley tunesmiths gaped incredulously as this symphonic...
...dapper, long-nosed, quick-moving little Ravel visited the U. S. to conduct some of his own compositions with Walter Damrosch's New York Symphony and other U. S. orchestras. Shy, almost hysterically affable as a conductor, he seemed continuously surprised and pleased that his music sounded so well. Once he lost his place in the middle of his own La Valse and had to be pulled through by the orchestra...
Nearly two months ago the music of Jean Sibelius' Origin of Fire, carefully wrapped in two separate packages, was mailed by Leipzig Publishers Breitkopf & Haertel to Boston Symphony's Conductor Koussevitzky. Last week, with the U. S. premiere of the lamed Finn's work scheduled for immediate performance, Boston Symphony officials, still awaiting the appearance of one of the packages, telegraphed frantically to Leipzig. The publishers, equally frantic, located the only other copy in Europe, telephotoed it to Berlin, whence it was transmitted by radio facsimile to the U. S. Relieved Koussevitzky hired transcribers, got the parts...