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...Sundays sits soberly gowned in the organ loft at St. James's Cathedral. Chicago recognizes him as one of the most important U. S. composers. But New Yorkers who went to last week's Philadelphia Orchestra concert were not deeply impressed by the fact that Conductor Eugene Ormandy had chosen to play Sowerby's Prairie. Listeners for whom most modern music is synonymous with unfathomable din were asked to imagine themselves alone in an Illinois cornfield far away from railways, motorcars, telephones and radios...
...showed an unusual talent for playing the piano. During the War, in spite of being blind in one eye, he was drafted for military service, set to playing the saxophone and the clarinet in a regimental band. Even then, at 22, Leo Sowerby was writing ambitious orchestral music. Conductor Frederick Stock invited him to attend the Chicago Symphony's performance of his Set of Four. He got leave to go but when he returned to the regiment the bandmaster reprimanded him roundly, told him he knew nothing about music anyhow. Later in France after he had done time washing...
...Europe this winter young Werner Janssen has made a name as conductor and composer. But last week he learned that even a determined young musician cannot always rule his own actions. Bristling with energy he arrived in Berlin to conduct Rubin Goldmark's Gettysburg Requiem, a symphony by the Russian Borodin and his own Louisiana. Scarcely was he off the train when he was informed that his program had been changed for one of German music. Gettysburg had been banned. Director Lorenz Horber of the Berlin Philharmonic said, "because we are having trouble with the U. S. just...
Composer Goldmark is but one of many musicians to suffer from the anti-Semitism of Adolf Hitler. Conductor Bruno Walter (Schlesinger) has been forbidden to give concerts in Germany, gone to Holland to stay. Conductor Otto Klemperer was attacked and beaten by Nazis. Conductor Fritz Busch (no Jew, but a Socialist) was on the stand ready to conduct in Dresden one night last month when Nazi sympathizers raised such a disturbance that he had to hand his baton over to an assistant...
...will fulfill his plan to conduct at Bayreuth this summer. Last week Toscanini vehemently expressed his resentment of the way his colleagues have been treated by requesting that his name be the first one signed to a musicians' protest cabled to Chancellor Hitler. In an open letter Pianist-Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch recalled the attack made on Toscanini two years ago in Italy when he refused to conduct the Fascist anthem, how other musicians stood by him then. Sergei Koussevitzky going so far as to cancel concerts he had intended to give at the Scala, thus jeopardizing his chance...