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...been drilled tirelessly all autumn. More difficult still has been the task of training an orchestra which has never before played the Ring. Five players had to be brought on from Manhattan, four to play the special Wagner tuben, one the drums. To start the spadework a month ago, Conductor Artur Bodanzky sent two of his assistants from the Metropolitan Opera. For the past fortnight he has been on the job in person, rehearsing as much as 16 hours a day, shouting at his horns for greater force and clarity, pleading with his strings for more true feeling, reminding each...
...responsive than a handsome blond Dutchman who sat hugging his cello between his knees. Hans Kindler was back in Philadelphia last week, this time as a guest on Stokowski's podium, waving his own commanding stick. He had returned to his oldtime colleagues as an experienced, full-fledged conductor. But he had done more than achieve a conductor's technique. Despite Depression he had succeeded in planting an orchestra in Washington, D. C., making it grow and flower...
...became his sponsors, labored tirelessly over a disjointed body of players who badly needed work. From its feeble beginnings the orchestra has grown fast. First winter there were 87 guarantors. Now there are 1,600. First concerts had programs which were not too difficult to play, easy to digest. Conductor Kindler has waxed bolder as his audiences waxed larger, plans for this season a rich Brahms festival with Pianist Myra Hess...
Among U. S. collectors contributing to the Modern Museum's exhibition are the Chicago Art Institute, the Pennsylvania Museum, Adolph Lewisohn, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Mrs. William Averell Harriman, Conductor Josef Stransky, A. Conger Goodyear and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Winterbotham of Burlington...
...afternoon of the Maisonette's opening, the Rev. Vasily Kurdiumoff, portly, bull-voiced rector of the Russian Orthodox Church of Jesus Christ the Savior, went down to the St. Regis, put on his ceremonial blue brocade riza. Assisted by the conductor of his choir, General Sergey Savitzky, he chanted prayers before an improvised altar on which ten candles illuminated an ikon. Then Priest Kurdiumoff presented a loaf of bread and a small silver salt cellar to Mrs. Anne Tiffany, decorator, and to Mrs. Vincent Astor. whose husband owns the hotel. Up to the priest, one by one, filed Russian...