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...46th season of the Chicago Symphony came to an end last week with Associate Conductor Hans Lange on the podium. Regular Conductor Frederick Stock is so old and ailing these days that Chicago rarely sees him. The rumor that he will resign is not confirmed. But Chicagoans had another resignation to mull over, and they paid their respects to Concertmaster Mischa Mischakoff by standing and cheering him a full five minutes. As concertmaster with the new NBC Orchestra under Toscanini and Rodzinski, Mischakoff will have an enviable post. Chicago will have lost its best violinist...
...chafe him. His first boss was a tailor who apprenticed him at the age of 12. Batista now brags that before he quit a year later he could make a suit of clothes himself. Afterward he worked in a grocery store and bar, as a railroad fireman, engineer, conductor. Once he studied to be a barber. In the sugar boom of 1920, Cuba's Dance of the Millions, he was administrator of an Oriente cane plantation and likes to recall how he spurned his chances then to enrich himself dishonestly. Next year he entered the army as an infantry...
Domestic honors came to Parker thick & fast. All in a few years he was made choir director and organist at Trinity Church in Boston, Battell Professor of Music at Yale and later dean of its music school, organist at New York's Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, conductor of Philadelphia's Eurydice and Orpheus Clubs, conductor of the New Haven Symphony. By juggling his appointments, rehearsals, classes, Parker managed to carry a prodigiously heavy schedule. He still found time to write odes, masques, chamber music, organ-pieces, ballads, overtures, sonatas, cantatas, two operas. But he never equaled...
...guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic, Polish Artur Rodzinski has shown himself a diversified program builder. Six weeks ago he promised New York a premiere of Polish Karol Szymanowski's latest work Harnasie. One night last week Harnasie was presented in Carnegie Hall. People who did not read the newspapers were startled to find black-bordered inserts in their programs, suggesting that the premiere be considered a memorial since Karol Szymanowski had died two days before...
...gripman grips, the cable car moves steadily up the steepest hill, protected by three sets of brakes. Busiest cable car is the Powell Street line, starting on a turntable where Powell joins Market Street, San Francisco's "main stem." Passengers scurry for seats while the gripman and conductor swing the tiny car on the turntable until it faces uphill. Then with a great clanking (gripmen traditionally play tunes on their gongs) the car rolls up the sharp grade, past the swank Fairmont and Mark Hopkins Hotels while the conductor collects 5?-fares (conductors traditionally make wisecracks. Sample: "Conductor...