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...play Porgy left impressions which presented a stiff challenge for a Broadway-bred composer. With music frequently inspired, Mr. Gershwin manages to give new life and importance to the Negroes of Catfish Row. Conductor Alexander Smallens raises his baton and an overture sounds out like a brisk command for attention. It is Saturday night in Charleston. A shrill trumpet sets the pitch. A peppery xylophone suggests the dice, rolling to trouble...
...spend $300,000 on its Sunday night broadcasts and Ford has outlined a budget almost as big. Ambitious tour of the season will come in the spring when the Philadelphia Orchestra will play in 30 cities, sponsored by RCA-Victor Co. Rumor persists that when his concerts are over Conductor Leopold Stokowski intends to act in a cinema portraying the life of his hero, Richard Wagner...
Died. Dr. Alberto Rinaldi, good friend and physician to Conductor Arturo Toscanini, whom he successfully treated for bursitis ("conductor's arm"); apparently by being clubbed to death; in small Piazze, Italy. Worshipped and called "miracle man" by villagers, Dr. Rinaldi treated such ailments as arthritis by a secret method involving injections from mysterious phials. He visited patients at night clad in ghostly white vestments. The secret of his treatment he took to his grave. Upon Dr. Rinaldi's unexplained death, Toscanini, who had annually obtained relief from him, hastened to Piazze for the funeral...
Rare old musical manuscripts, personal property of and for years reserved for the British Royal Family, have been brought to American by Malcolm H. Holmes '28, conductor of the Pierian Sodality of 1808. The scores were released only by special permission of the Keeper of the King's Music...
With himself as guest conductor, several of his latest arrangements and compositions were enthusiastically received in Munich and Salzburg. These scores aroused favorable comment in this country when played by the Philadelphia Symphony concert Orchestra last summer...