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Marvel to the players as rehearsals proceeded was that a conductor with such brief experience had memorized each detail of the music so perfectly, that by listening to orchestras, reading over pocket scores in trains, at meals, in bed, he had developed such clear ideas on the meaning of each phrase and nuance. First thing he did was to reseat the orchestra, putting the first violins on one side, the second violins on the other, to hear two distinct voices instead of one massed tone. Next he instructed the fiddlers to make their bows move as one, whether Stokowski fussed...
...simplest of gestures led the men on to do what he had taught them at rehearsal. But the music was so articulate, the Mozart so sparkling, the Rhenish Symphony of Schumann so gravely romantic, that in intermission the lobby was abuzz with the talk of this coming young conductor. The program went on with Debussy's La Mer, the Intermezzo from Granados' Goyescas, three dances from De Falla's Three-Cornered Hat. At the end the audience was on its feet cheering. The players stamped their feet, beat excitedly on their music racks...
After the performance Conductor Albert Stoessel gave the collaborators medals from the American Opera Society of Chicago. Engraved on each was a message wishing "the continued success of such a fine work for the great cause of American musical...
...picked a fight, nearly killed him. When Slaughter found out what had happened he did the same to Drury. Bolly drowned his shame in the river, and Drury was arrested for murder. To make a clean slate, Slaughter took the deacon's wife, Lulu left town with the conductor...
...regular Cambridge concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was the occasion for the debut of Mr. Walter Piston as composer and conductor. Mr. Piston's Concerto for orchestra has obviously been inspired by the Brandenburg concerti of Bach for its general form of using the various choirs of the orchestra as collective soloists in the contrapuntal development of several themes. The opening theme is indeed very similar to that of the third Brandenburg. The harmonic development seems always to begin with the more orthodox manner and to court the modern idiom for complexity, at the same time employing modern modes...