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Simultaneously last week in Boston and in Philadelphia batons flicked into the air, releasing the music that marked the overture to the 1936-37 season. In Boston, Beacon Hillers, not content merely to clap their gloved hands, stood in deference to Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky who gravely bowed his thanks, peaked the afternoon with a peerless performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
...contemporary composers "gave him the hiccoughs." Fortnight ago this ebullient musician came out as a composer himself. The M. M. Cole Publishing Co. presented 20 Boguslawski piano pieces, 120 edited classics for children. Simple, but not for musical dunces, the exercises so tickled the Cincinnati Symphony's Assistant Conductor Vladimir Bakaleinikoff that he chose four of the Boguslawski compositions to orchestrate for his coming season of children's concerts. The publishers thereupon commissioned Pianist-Composer Boguslawski to write 180 more children's teaching-pieces, edit 400 classics...
Under the baton of Dr. Sorgo Koussovitzky, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will open its regular season with concerts this afternoon and tomorrow evening in Symphony Hall in Boston. The orchestra and its conductor need no introduction in this column; it appears that the program for the pair of concerts is likewise familiar...
Another claimant to authorship of The Prisoner's Song was Conductor Nathaniel ("Nat") Shilkret. Last week this sawed-off little maestro astounded the industry by going after The Prisoner's Song in dead earnest. He filed a copy of the music at the Copyright Office in Washington, had his lawyer, Maurice Speiser, call on the publishers, Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., for an accounting of the baleful ballad's huge sales and earnings...
...following are provisionally retained in the competition for assistant conductor: William W. Austin '39, Peter J. Chenery '40, Gerald E. Deakin 40, Egbert W. Fisher 1G, David H. Kimball...