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...artists have recently formed an organization called the Wagnerian Singers and are at present engaged in touring the country. They will come to Symphony Hall on Sunday afternoon with a program containing six Wagner selections and numbers by Mozart, Strauss, Weber, Gounod, and Offenbach. Richard Hageman is the conductor of the group which includes the wellknown basso, Alexander Kipnis...
...Hans Richter, the Bayreuth conductor, wished to do the composition at the Philharmonic concert in Vienna, but, after one rehearsal, the Philharmonic directors pronounced the work "too Russian," and it was unanimously rejected...
...iron-grey hair flying, his firm jaws clenched, Conductor Artur Rodzinski mounted a podium in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center one day last week, and with a brisk downbeat of his baton started a new orchestra through its paces. He soon exclaimed: "Marvelous! The strings are fantastically fine. ... I doubt if there has ever been assembled anywhere, at any time, a new orchestra that promises so much for the future...
Concertmaster, that necessarily capable violinist who sits near the conductor, acts as his working assistant, is Mischa Mischakoff, onetime concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony, founder of a string quartet which for twelve years bore his name, owner of a $50,000 Stradivarius. The rest of the orchestra is well up to his high...
...Menjou, and he, with a hundred similar muscians, is out of work. Miss Durbin succeeds after a good doal of harrowing misunderstanding and consequent rushing around New York not only to form her own orchestra but also obtain a backer and none other than Mr. Leopold Stokowski as her conductor; Mr. Stokowski is not an actor but he makes a most engaging character on the screen...