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When a thin, high-strung little man mounted the conductor's stand in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall one evening last week, the big audience applauded cordially. Igor Stravinsky peered at them through his double-lensed glasses, curved his heavy lips in greeting. Though he was standing there for the first time in twelve years, few in the audience were unfamiliar with the man who, more than any other, had bent modern music to his will...
Last week's audience, flocking to hear what the Russian would do with their Philharmonic, found him as objective a conductor as he is composer. Leading off with a little-known Weber overture, he made its Chinese theme sound clear and precise. Stravinsky has always sneered at "interpretation." His complete lack of it froze many a listener's heart. He conducted with the sharp, exact beat of a metronome, like that instrument seemed indifferent to the gallery...
Married. Cinemactress Ann Harding Bannister, 34; and Werner Janssen, 37, Manhattan composer and symphony conductor, son of Restaurateur August Janssen ("Wants To See You") ; in London...
...State Symphony Orchestra (WPA) under the direction of Alexander Thiede is giving a concert in Sanders Theatre tonight. Ernest Bioch's Concerto Grosso is to be played and should prove to be the most interesting item. Dimitri Mitropoulos continues as guest conductor of the Boston Symphony and a presenting for this week his own arrangement of the Prelude and Fugue for Organ in B minor, Schumann's Second Symphony, a new Piano Concerto by Malipiero, and Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole...
...public. In Philadelphia this season Stokowski led the orchestra through the world premiere of Rachmaninoff's Third Symphony, later took it to New York (TIME, Nov. 23, 1936). When, after 17 years absence. The Bells was again heard last week in Manhattan, the Philadelphia Orchestra, under new Conductor Eugene Ormandy, contrived its return...