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...luxury of a bad temper, indulged in regularly by conductors of great orchestras in. the winter, is something which most second-string, summertime maestros cannot afford. An exception is dark little José Iturbi, explosive Spanish conductor-pianist. Last summer Iturbi had one tantrum in Cleveland because his audiences munched hot dogs, another in Philadelphia because photographers' flashbulbs annoyed him (TIME, Sept. 7). In Philadelphia again this summer as leader of the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Iturbi waited until last week, an exceptionally hot one in the breezeless park, to go into his annual...
...said later, that during that half he would lead the orchestra. When he arrived at the Dell, however, Iturbi found that Singers Peerce and Monroe were about to go on the air with songs by Gershwin, Victor Herbert, Oley Speaks, Jerome Kern. Frank La Forge, Daniel Wolf, Coleridge Taylor. Conductor Iturbi was not expected to accompany these songs and singers, but his emotional temperature began rising rapidly. He heard Mr. Peerce through two numbers, then strode upon the Dell stage, and began gesticulating at a radio announcer...
...Hawthorne wrote his Tanglewood Tales for children and began his The House of the Seven Gables. Nothing very important had since happened at sedate Tanglewood until last week. From the nearby Berkshire Hunt and Country Club, where he and his wife had been put up in the best suite, Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky of the Boston Symphony drove over to Tanglewood, noted with approval that a tan tent, 280 ft. by 120 ft. and 60 ft. high at its peak, had been raised on the property. Dr. Koussevitzky entered the tent, commanded that two sticks be clicked together before...
Thus began the fourth annual Berkshire Symphonic Festival, which in its first two years was nothing more pretentious than a few concerts by New York Philharmonic Symphony men under oldtime Conductor Henry Hadley on the Hanna Farm at Lenox. Last summer, on an estate near Stockbridge, three concerts by the Boston Symphony under Dr. Kaussevitzky netted $1,800, caused organizers of the Festival to begin to talk of "an American Salzburg" and impelled the stately Boston maestro to urge that the number of summer concerts be increased and the Festival obtain a permanent home. Result was that the present owners...
...Chicago, Burlington & Quincy calls its hostesses "Zephyrettes." They wear pearl-grey uniforms, overseas caps, flowers in buttonholes. Before the train starts they greet passengers on the platform, show them to their locations, go through the train with the conductor to see that everyone is comfortable. The Burlington once had 1,500 applications (some from Mexico and Canada) for twelve jobs. A Burlington requirement, in addition to amiability and pleasing appearance, is "self-confidence...