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...Iturbi, swart, muscular pianist-conductor, began the 1936 U. S. summer music season with more engagements than any other hot-weather maestro (TIME, July 6). By last week, when the season was closing, Iturbi had made more news than any of his colleagues, less by able conducting than by magnificent exhibitions of Spanish spunk...
...scheduled concerts with the Great Lakes Symphony. When the last number of the program was about to begin the audience became aware that something was wrong on the stage, and for nine minutes radio listeners on the Mutual Broadcasting chain heard nothing but ad-libbing by an anxious announcer. Conductor Iturbi, it became apparent, balked at starting Impressions of Buenos Aires by José André. To Cleveland's Conductor Rudolph Ringwall, who asked what was the matter, the stocky Spaniard snapped: ''Piano!" Ringwall, who is not psychic, finally gathered that Iturbi wanted a pianist to help...
Despite the fact that at rehearsals Conductor Iturbi had given everyone a clear impression that he did not consider a pianist essential, the swart Spaniard stormed: "Did I not give the librarian the score the day before? Did [it] not say Impressions of Buenos Aires requires a pianist? And then, when I am about to commence, there is no pianist! Without a pianist I do not play!" Iturbi on frankfurters: "Hot dogs! The audience eating hot dogs while we play the second symphony of Jean Sibelius! People scraping their feet on the floor. Like thees : Scrape ! scrape ! Madre de Dios...
Divorced. Mrs. Queena Marion Tillotson Pelletier (Queena Mario), 40, Metropolitan Opera Company soprano; and Wilfred Pelletier. 40, since 1916 the Metropolitan's assistant conductor; in Reno, Nev. Grounds: cruelty...
Disciplined and deeply musical as was Conductor Walter on the podium, he had working with him no single artist so gifted as Toscanini's Soprano Lotte Lehmann. In the much-rehearsed Meister singer, Lehmann was a vital Eva. In Fidelio she was a dramatic, moving Leonore, even in that opera's static, old-fashioned stretches. Salzburg autograph collectors agreed with critics, pursued Soprano Lehmann in her Dirndl in the streets as often as they did Conductors Walter and Toscanini...