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...reputation, the power of his music. Orchestral excerpts from Lulu have been played at the Berlin Staatsoper where extra police squads governed the crowds. Last spring fragments were played by the Boston Symphony (TIME, April 1). Last week the New York Philharmonic-Symphony took its turn at Lulu, under Conductor Otto Klemperer...
...miss productions have been frequent in Chicago this season. Manager Paul Longone has felt obliged to economize on rehearsals. He has let his ensembles suffer for the sake of hiring a few big names. Backstage sensation occurred last week when Conductor Gennaro Papi resigned a week before he was to have conducted the U. S. premiere of Respighi's La Fiamma. Manager Longone issued a blazing statement to the effect that Papi had found it impossible to memorize the relatively difficult score. Papi railed against artistic conditions in general, implied that it was all too easy for mediocre performers...
...company. The Lorand orchestra would be a smash-hit in a night club but night clubs are forbidden. Ambitious Edith Lorand refuses to be a mere entertainer, although serious critics may rate her as such. Hers is a concert organization, she claims. It is led by the only woman conductor who has ever kept a troupe of men completely submissive...
...Conductor Lange, on his own, was introducing the Philharmonic-Symphony Chamber Orchestra, sponsored for its first five concerts by enterprising Bennington College. Lange had worked tirelessly all summer compiling his programs, weeding from the mass of rarely heard music which demands a small, highly-skilled orchestra. For his first program he traced back to the 17th and early 18th Centuries before full-fledged symphonies existed, before brasses and drums had any real caste, before there were special conductors but instead, harpsichordists or violinists who set the pace while playing along easily with the other musicians. Amazement was that such gentle...
Died. Kurt Schindler, 53, composer and conductor, founder and for 17 years leader of Manhattan's famed Schola Cantorum; after long illness; in Manhattan...