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...replace Anita Colombo, able directrix of La Scala Opera in Milan who lost her job last month, partly because of her friendship with anti-Fascist Arturo Toscanini (TIME, Sept. 28), a rich Venetian and pioneer Fascist was appointed: Erardo Trentinaglia. Esteemed in Italy as a composer and conductor, Signor Trentinaglia planned first to shorten La Scala's season, cut down on novelties...
Cleveland dressed up to match new Severance Hall, built for the Orchestra and dedicated last winter (TIME, Feb. 16). Conductor Nikolai Sokolov indulged none of his predilections for new, unproven music. For him the occasion deserved Strauss, Franck, Beethoven, Brahms...
Other major orchestras are scheduled to give their first programs this week: The Chicago Symphony with Conductor Frederick Stock beginning his 27th season; the Cincinnati Symphony with Eugene Goossens beginning his first; the Seattle Symphony with Karl Krueger. Next week will begin the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Artur Rodzinski, the Minneapolis Symphony with Henri Verbrugghen, the St. Louis Symphony with Vladimir Golschmann, the Milwaukee Philharmonic with Frank Laird Waller. Rochester, N. Y. with different guest conductors, Portland, Ore. (Willem van Hoogstraten), Omaha (Joseph Littau) and Syracuse (Vladimir Shavitch) save their openings for November...
Soprano Fleischer had had a disagreement with Festival Conductor Albert Stoessel at a morning rehearsal. She had objected to the local accompanist provided for her, asked to have summoned from Manhattan little Kurt Ruhrseitz, her coach at the Metropolitan Opera House. Pianist Ruhrseitz arrived but by performance time Soprano Fleischer was missing. Festival directors searched widely for her, finally attributed her disappearance to temperament, proceeded with the concert without her. The directors should have known better. If Soprano Fleischer has flights of "temperament" she never shows them. After the concert she was discovered ia her hotel room (she had engaged...
Practicality. When as a boy he hawked newspapers and fruit and played with chemicals on a Michigan train, he spilled some burning phosphorus. An irate conductor gave the amateur chemist such a box on both ears that his deafness is partially ascribed to it. Thus he developed an interest in aural matters which eventually led to the telephone, dictograph, phonograph, talking cinema. Hence a slight interest in music: "I think the best music is that which has a tempo which corresponds to half of our heart-beat." For other cultural or even gustatory enjoyments he had no interest because...