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...Last week when Miss Brico wound up the third season of the New York Women's Symphony Orchestra, she also had command over four solo singers and a composite chorus of 250. This time there were men in her orchestra, managing some of the unwieldy winds. Though Conductor Brico was in excellent form and the women played better than ever before, the real hero of the evening was Horatio William Parker, a dead and almost forgotten composer whose first oratorio made him famous 40 years ago. His Hora Novissima has since been played so rarely in the concert hall...
Within four years the Indianapolis Symphony was giving additional performances at Muncie, Bloomington and Lafayette. It began to hire soloists, guest conductors. This season it easily met a $25,000 budget. Last week the Indianapolis Symphony announced its most ambitious plans to date. Old Conductor Schaefer will retire. Fabien Sevitzky, conductor of Boston's People's Symphony, will succeed him with a three-year contract, his reward for a sensational guest performance this winter. The orchestra plans 20 home concerts, 15 more on a Statewide tour...
...When Conductor Eugene Ormandy last week led the Philadelphia Orchestra through its final Manhattan performance of the season, listeners were pleasantly startled at Lucien Cailliet's transcription of a 17th Century passacaglia by Dietrich Buxtehude. Through its 28 melodic evolutions they could unmistakably recognize the theme Bach had later expanded and used in his great Passacaglia in C Minor.* But few in the audience had ever heard more about Buxtehude than his odd name. Important as is his niche in the history of music, Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) was a great organist whose works are rarely played...
Though she is 41, the Hungarian soprano's voice showed no signs of wear. Conductor Otto Klemperer recognized what a voice she had when he heard her at the Cologne Opera. In 1927 he took her to the newly founded Berlin Kroll Opera, starred her in nearly every premiere. Later she went to the Paris Opera and the Budapest Op era. Now Rosa Pauly sings most often in Vienna. Strauss picked her to sing his Elektra at the Coronation Operas in Lon don this spring...
Pauly was to leave this week for Prague. At the Coronation she will' hear Artur Rodzinski conduct again. Critics who heaped praise on Soprano Pauly last week did not forget Conductor Rodzinski whose eloquent musicianship made Elektra one of the great triumphs of the season. An other honor came to Rodzinski two days later when Ambassador Jerzy Potocki pinned on him the Polonia Restituta, Poland's highest order of merit...