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...Five conductors will have gone to bat with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony before great Arturo Toscanini returns late in January. Otto Klemperer, Hans Lange and Werner Janssen have had their turns. Bruno Walter's begins next week. Last week's Philharmonic guest was Artur Rodzinski, popular conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra...
...Conductor Rodzinski's début concert was the loudest if not the loveliest that New Yorkers have heard this season. He swayed excitedly from side to side, made fierce faces at the players to bring out every last theatric effect. Scriabin's Divine Poem, stunningly bombastic, compelled an ovation for the hard-working Clevelander. But Rodzinski had still louder music: two entr'actes from Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk...
...Mexican Indian, a onetime cowboy and an Alabama Negro who used to be a bootblack composed the bulk of the music which Conductor Leopold Stokowski brought from Philadelphia to Manhattan one night last week. The fair-haired Stokowski was proving that his orchestra gives an occasional hearing to untried native composers...
...climax in true African fashion. But for the rest Composer Dawson appeared to have forgotten his primitive background. After his shoe-shining days in Anniston, Ala., he worked ambitiously at Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. He studied music in Kansas City, later in Chicago where Conductor Frederick Stock chose him for his first trombonist. He returned to Tuskegee in 1930, to head the music department, direct the choir...
...time because a nervous little man named Johann Strauss had started writing irresistible waltz tunes. He conducted his own compositions while he fiddled bewitchingly at the head of his band. If Johann Strauss fathered the Viennese waltz, his son Johann II (Blue Danube), who was also an expert violinist-conductor, reared it to an historic state of world-wide popularity...