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Because Toscanini overshadows every conductor who appears in Manhattan, casual concertgoers have exhibited only a lackadaisical interest in his capable, scholarly colleague, born in Constantinople because his father was stationed there as supervisor of the music for the Sultan's marine bands. But it was a Hans Lange concert last week that aroused more real enthusiasm than any other musical event in the current Manhattan season...
Last week, for the first time this season, the New York Philharmonic Symphony played some music by a U. S. composer. For Conductor Otto Klemperer it was a matter of duty to give a hearing to native talent. For the man thus honored it was an opportunity to keep prominent company with Bach, Ravel, Brahms. The composer Conductor Klemperer picked was Roy Harris, whom admirers regard as the strong White Hope of modern U. S. music. Last week's offering was not Harris' most ambitious work but When Johnny Comes Marching Home, an eight-minute "American Overture," commissioned...
Happily donning his gladdest rags and casting aside the cultured pall of Park Square, the Playgoer moves upon Times Square. The New York boards are teeming with activity, and there are no many worthy productions that the be-Bostoned conductor of this column is all in a dither with an embarrassment of riches to recommend to his Princeton-bound public. With a dash of courage let's have at this long list of theatrical diversions...
...first it seemed brazenly ambitious for Washington to name an untried orchestra the National Symphony. But this season Conductor Kindler and his board of directors will try to make it live up to its name. Plans call for it to travel more extensively than other U. S. orchestras, begin this year by playing in Canada, New England, through the South...
...fire effects, attain nostalgic softness, rise to mighty crescendoes. Leader of the Moscow Cathedral Choir is slender, personable Vicolas Afonsky, a Tsarist army officer. The featured soloist is Kapiton Zaporojetz a massive basso profundo whom the Tsar's young daughters used to call "that rosy milk-fed piglet." Conductor Afonsky did his job in a quiet, self-effacing way last week. Basso Zaporojetz emitted cavernous tones to enrich the ensemble. But the best solo work was turned in by one Madame Pavlenko, a big earthy contralto who stepped to the footlights, closed her eyes, intoned the Gretchanmoff Credo with...