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...March 1929 tall, jolly Pianist-Conductor Ernest Schelling was rehearsing his "Impressions From An Artist's Life" with the New York-Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. He banged his thumb on the keys, had to stop playing. On his thumb appeared a felon which turned into a prolonged infection. An ordinary felon (whitlow) is a skin or bone inflammation which usually lasts about three weeks. So long as the felon was "engaged in his employment, or maturing his felonious little plans," Pianist Schelling could play no solos. He could, however, and did, conduct the Saturday Philharmonic concerts...
...Three cheers for Albert Coates and the Soviet Union!" cried a young Manhattanite early this month when Conductor Coates took over the last half of the Stadium concerts of the New York-Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Albert Coates tried to look unconcerned during the prolonged applause, making only the vaguest of gestures. Then he bobbed ebulliently over his orchestra, resembling greatly a Roman emperor, although illness last spring had reduced his weight from 240 lb. to 200 Ib. From night to night thereafter he presided over such various Stadium doings as four all-Russian programs, the Hall Johnson Choir, the Albertina...
Last June Albert Coates got a notable job: the general music directorship of the United Philharmonic Orchestras of the U. S. S. R. and musical directorship of the opera houses of Moscow and Leningrad. Last year Conductor Coates had plenty to do; he might conduct a Boris Godounov in Moscow one night, hurry off to rehearse in Leningrad the next morning. Next year he will be even busier. Besides working with the excellent orchestras and operas of Russia's two chief cities, he must improve the mediocre ones at Tiflis, Baku, Kiev, Kharkov, Svendlovsk, Stalingrad and possibly others...
...Russianized British capitalist (woolen mills) and a half-Russian Englishwoman. He grew up in Russia, studied under Rimsky-Korsakov. Vaguely intending to become an electrical chemist, he studied in England under Sir Oliver Lodge. At 18 he returned to music. In 1914, aged 32, he became senior conductor at the Imperial Opera in St. Petersburg, stayed there until the Revolution. He did not settle again in Russia until last year. When Conductor Coates arrived in Manhattan last month he seemed thoroughly Russianized, voluble in praise of Soviet music. He talked of 21-year-old Dmitri Shostakovitch ("marvellous, a second Mozart...
Cleveland gossips dwelt on the unlikely theme that Conductor Sokoloff had been found wanting in social and civic ways. More important and evident, both to Conductor Sokoloff and the symphony's backers, were the facts the orchestra needed money and that more people in Cleveland would pay to see a newsworthy conductor than would pay to hear the best music consistently produced by the same conductor. Audiences have been bigger when guest conductors came to Cleveland, like Sir Hamilton Harty (who will guest conduct during Conductor Sokoloff's customary mid-season absence this year), Enrique Fernandez Arbos...