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...benefit of the Orchestra which has played for him during the past eleven seasons. Once his baton was raised he became the humble servant of Beethoven and Wagner, began by making the first Leonore overture seem so buoyant and tuneful that it was hard to regard him as a conductor nearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Flashlight Farewell | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...Ride of the Valkyries ended the program, brought the audience to its feet, too moved at first to cheer the conductor as he turned from the players, looking suddenly tired. In that tense moment a news cameraman popped up at the footlights, exploded a flashlight directly in the Maestro's face. Toscanini fled to the wings. Out leaped Bruno Zirato, the Philharmonic's assistant manager, to seize the photographer by the scruff, hustle him out to the lobby where detectives and doormen de prived him of his camera and the plate he had used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Flashlight Farewell | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...lobby the luckless cameraman was identified as Frank Muto of Hearst's International News Photos, who had bought a seat early, kept his camera hidden until the chance came to snap the conductor bowing his goodbye. The audience filed out denouncing the Hearstling as a "desecrator," a "barbarian," a "vandal." But Frank Muto Was unabashed while he waited to get his camera back. One blazing-eyed young woman marched up to him and flayed him for having "marred the ending of a great historic concert." "But it might have been a grand picture," retorted Frank Muto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Flashlight Farewell | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

Tonight is American night at the "Pops" and Arthur Fiedler, the conductor, has announced a program which outdoes itself in patriotism. Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever," Victor Herbert and Stephen Foster melodies, and various other numbers commonly grouped under the rather damning and microphone phrase "American Favorites" are all to be played; but the real point of interest of the whole evening centers on George Gershwin. Mr. Gershwin, in keeping with his fame, is to be the soloist in his "Rhapsody in Blue" as well as in his "Concerto for Pianoforte in F". What is more, he will conduct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 5/7/1936 | See Source »

...however, done a really excellent piece of work in so far as he is concerned with the "man with the baton" and not with the men under him. An excellent chapter on, baton exhibitionism does much to "debunk" some popular fallacies as well as to expose certain audience-minded conductors and their tricks to catch popular support. That Leopold Stokowski's Polish accent is a fake, that one conductor wears a corset at every concert to improve his figure, and that a French conductor changes batons in mid-symphonic stream all makes very entertaining if not instructive reading. The book...

Author: By A. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 4/30/1936 | See Source »

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