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...Sharon Heights, Mass, at 4:15 one morning last week lights came on, heads popped from windows as the New York, New Haven & Hartford freight train OB 4 chuffed by with a load of onions for the Boston market, its whistle going full blast all the way. Conductor D. L. Kent hurried up from the caboose, and still windows lighted, heads popped at every turn. Faster & faster went the 664-16, 17, 18 m.p.h. Her fireman shoveled as he never had before to keep up steam pressure, for the whistle was stuck fast. At last the OB 4 rolled into...
...aspiration of few young U. S. musicians, but Leon Barzin rose further. Since 1930 he has been director of the National Orchestra Association, which trains students in orchestra technique and conducting, presents them in concerts. The best pupils graduate into the big orchestras, to sit on chairs under great conductors as Leon Barzin's father did, as he was not content to do. This summer came the next step upward in Leon Barzin's career. Willem van Hoogstraten, official conductor of the Philharmonic-Symphony in its summer concerts at Lewisohn Stadium, was away on a fortnight...
...spite of only one rehearsal, youthful Conductor Barzin produced smooth, energetic interpretations of a program scarcely calculated to arouse enthusiasm. He is partial to his contemporaries, likes to balance comparable works by modern Europeans and Americans. His audiences at the Stadium heard seven U. S. composers, including three New Yorkers, Philip James (Overture in Olden Style on French Noels), Robert Braine (S. O. S.), Deems Taylor (Through the Looking Glass). Without frills, Barzin directs in a kinetic physical style, occasionally threatens to get ahead of his orchestra in timing. But some critics found the concerts directed by him the best...
...Dell's 60 ft. stage. Footlights, border lights, electric towers, side spotlights and a "traveling moon" made the shell look to some listeners like an opera-lover's Fourth of July. Philadelphians looked forward to seven more operatic productions including Traviata, Faust, and Rigoletto. Next year. Conductor Smallens promised to have stage facilities adequate for Wagner...
...Francisco, the Summer Symphony was ready to open its eighth summer season with eight weekly concerts, the first under Conductor Henry Hadley and others under guest conductors including Richard Lert, Alfred Hertz, Fritz Reiner, Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Another development near San Francisco was the organization, just across the Golden Gate from the city, of the Marin County Musical Chest, financed by subscriptions averaging 25? from members of Marin County's mixed population of esthetes and Portuguese dairy farmers...