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...Tillman Merritt, instructor and tutor in Music, is acting as guide and conductor; Oliver R. Straus '36, and Harrison Wood '36, are the organizers. The other members are Kenneth Cameron '34, Robert R. Corell '35, Robert S. Chafee '36, John N. Edson '36, Charles R. Rockwell III '36, and Albert Thorndike...
...school's advisory board, of which Dr. Archibald T. Davison '06, conductor of the Glee Club, is chairman, also includes: Edward B. Hill '94, chairman of the Division of Music, Walter Piston '24, assistant professor of Music, and G. Wallace Woodworth '24, assistant conductor of the Glee Club...
...towering Otto Klemperer felt last spring that like Job he had been afflicted beyond reason, he must have been in good measure repaid when he walked on to the stage in the Los Angeles Auditorium last week and 5,000 Californians stood up to welcome him as conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra. Because he was a Jew, Conductor Klemperer was pommeled last spring by a band of Nazi youths...
...Clark had supported the Los Angeles Orchestra for 14 years on the copper fortune left him by his father, the late fierce-whiskered Senator from Montana. Last spring he announced that he could do so for only one more season. Klemperer needed a job; Los Angeles needed a strong conductor to build up public subscriptions...
...volume he wanted, rocking back and forth for a gentle andante, jerking his head so violently for climaxes that his glasses kept sliding down his nose. Mr. Clark admires Klemperer so much that he hurried back from Europe for last week's concert, personally introduced the new conductor to the orchestramen, took him into his home to live. Mr. Clark's enthusiasm aroused nearly as much hope in Los Angeles last week as Conductor Klemperer's first performance. It was whispered about that he might change his mind and go on providing, in part at least...