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...about $10,400 per week, exclusive of Stokowski's salary. Invaluable to the Orchestra is bald-headed Marshall ("Curley") Betz, who acts as librarian and general baggage master. Marshall Betz allied himself with the Philadelphia band the same day that Stokowski did 24 years ago, understands the conductor's and the players' moods. With the current tour Betz faced his stiffest undertaking. He is responsible for the many scores that are to be played, for the instruments, which are carried in two baggage cars. Total value of the instruments amounts to some...
...Francisco Symphony this week ends its season. There has been talk all over the city of the reborn orchestra. Ladies have been giving symphony luncheons, going on to the concerts, rhapsodizing over the performances under chunky little Pierre Monteux. Last week it became known that the French conductor had signed a contract for three more years in San Francisco. The announcement spelled good news. Critics pointed to what Monteux had accomplished with an orchestra that had been ragged and uninspired. Financially the new contract meant that the Symphony considered itself saved...
...first concert was given. The rejuvenated orchestra has taken care of the rest. Attendance has been some 40% better than in 1929. Next year the orchestra personnel will be increased, the season probably extended. The only one to complain of the good fortune has been the gruff-looking conductor with the famed walrus mustachios. Monteux hates dinner parties, has been obliged to attend more than...
With their symphonic pride restored, San Franciscans listened last week to the premiere of a symphony which was supposed to be inspired by San Francisco's glories. Composer and conductor of the performance was Meredith Willson, born 33 years ago in Mason City, Iowa. At 17 Composer Willson was playing the flute in Sousa's band, later joined the New York Philharmonic, now works in San Francisco as a musical director for National Broadcasting Co. In his Symphony No. 1 in F, Composer Willson was first mindful of the pioneers who settled the city, then of the Great...
Molecule Magnets. It has been known for years that nerve impulses are electric in nature. But the mode of transmission remained obscure. It was wrong to picture a current passing along a nerve fibre as if through a metallic conductor. Since 1926 Dr. Edwin Joseph Colin and his associates at Harvard have been looking for a better picture. Last week he announced important progress...