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...What interested American readers most, however, was not the column but the fact that its conductor was a young woman who knew whereof she wrote-Mrs. William Mitchell Blair, 31, smart & sociable, whose husband is related to the formidable Chicago clans of McCormicks, Mitchells and Blairs...
Last week it became known that Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera had decided to produce The Emperor Jones next season, that Conductor Erich Kleiber had decided to give it at the Staatsoper in Berlin. In both places it will be staged with the chorus of pursuing savages grouped out of the audience's sight at first, some underneath, some in front of the stage. As they draw nearer to Jones, first their hands will emerge, then their arms, then slowly their bodies. Jones's encounters in the forest will be shown on small, raised stages to indicate that...
...When Conductor Leopold Stokowski made this statement five weeks ago, most people were inclined to discount it as Stokowski-talk. But last week Stokowski made good his word. He assembled 200 jobless musicians in Reyburn Plaza opposite Philadelphia's City Hall. A sharp wind was blowing across the open square. Some of the musicians sat huddled in overcoats. But Stokowski, by the time the concert was under way, had shed even his jacket, stood conducting in his shirtsleeves...
Stokowski's outdoor concert was ostensibly a rehearsal for a John Philip Sousa memorial concert held next night in Convention Hall. With Assistant Conductor Alexander Smallens of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Bandmaster Arthur Pryor, who once played the trombone in Sousa's band, Stokowski led the 200 jobless through nine Sousa marches which have come to comprise the nation's street music...
...jazz-making "Pennsylvanians." Fred Waring put on a series of brisk, comic turns but last week at Roxy's great waves of applause greeted every showing of an announcement that the symphony orchestra would be reinstated. Hugo Riesenfeld, leading pioneer for "good" cinema music. would be conductor. Good music had thus won a victory likely to have results in movie houses all over...