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...your columns you were careful to mention that ''Conductor Stock prides himself on his restraint. His men have never seen him lose his temper or break a baton." Until the Festival's fourth concert you may have been undisputed on this point, but at that performance, on Friday evening, May 11, the untainted record of the German bandmaster's son was spoiled. It was while Lucrczia Bori was singing Debussy's "Recitative and Aria of Lia," from L'Enfant Prodigitc, that Mr. Stock's hitherto intact baton went sailing in three pieces from...
...slender, grey-haired conductor, a pious wealthy woman and a Dayton, Ohio church which had earnest hard-working choristers gave Westminster Choir its start. The conductor was Dr. John Finley Williamson, quiet son of a British clergyman, whose aim in life was to improve church music, make it more devotional, restore some of the artistic prestige it had in the days of Palestrina, Haydn, Bach. The first Westminster Choir (1920) was composed of factory workers and named for Dayton's Westminster Presbyterian Church where it sang Sundays. But John Williamson was not content with one group's singing...
...pianist and violinist before she became the Metropolitan Opera's prize coloratura. The day Mrs. Bok proudly distributed diplomas her son Curtis was elected president of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, successor to the late Alexander Van Rensselaer. Young Curtis Bok is quiet, well-liked. And he shares with Conductor Leopold Stokowski a passion for all things Russian...
...When Curtis Publishing Co.'s dividends were high Mrs. Bok spent a good $500,000 per year on her musical institute, gave hard-pressed students a monthly stipend besides tuition, financed many a concert tour. The Curtis faculty has included such famed musicians as Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Pianists Wilhelm Bachaus and Moriz Rosenthal, the late great Leopold Auer...
...University's Packer Memorial Church, announced the beginning of two days of Bach. Philadelphia's Bruce Carey conducted, as he did last year after Death took kindly Fred Wolle. the Bethlehem native who in 1898 founded the Bach Festivals, made them bravely survive the invasion of steel. Conductor Carey used "Mr. Fred's" chorus composed of Lehigh Valley amateurs. Like "Mr. Fred," he had players from the Philadelphia Orchestra and four capable soloists (Soprano Ethyl Hayden, Contralto Rose Bampton, Tenor Dan Gridley, Basso Julius Huehn). But with all his display of energy Conductor Carey's interpretations...