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...agenting, real estate, beautifying. Self-conscious pride has enriched the language with the fancy names "mortician," "public relations counsel," "realtor," "beautician." A profession which has never needed a prop to elegance and dignity is Music, yet last week there came a musician's lament. A letter to proud Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra from sensitive Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch of the Detroit Symphony was published. Excerpt...
...opinion the word 'conductor' used in the English language for the leader of an orchestra is ridiculous. It ought to disappear from the vocabulary. The Italians speak of direttore, the Germans say diligent, which has the same root. The French say chef d'orchestre, which sounds also rather dignified...
...comparing War with Divorce, Dr. Robbins once more pinked his old adversary. Bishop Manning was a determined advocate of the World War, took part in the stirring "Battle of Karl Muck," which resulted in Conductor Muck of the Boston symphony being interned as a dangerous alien...
...Tristan bit was followed three days later by an hour-and-a quarter program from the Mozart Festival at Salzburg, Austria: the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Conductor Bruno Walter (who will conduct Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony next winter) in an all-Mozart program; and part of a promenade concert at Queen's Hall, London, under Conductor Sir Henry Joseph Wood. Clearer than NBC's first program, this one was not relayed but picked up by short-wave and re-transmitted. Symphonic-minded radiauditors were pleased. Heretofore radio policy had been to keep programs short...
First to change its mind had been Columbia. Recently it announced a series of six concerts during the winter by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Conductor Leopold Stokowski: one hour and three-quarters each. Then, last month, it put on the air the first international festival rebroadcast. From the Festspielhaus at Salzburg, with some degree of success, came the first act of Rossini's Barber of Seville* This month CBS scheduled a one-hour performance of Mozart's mighty Requiem from the Salzburg Cathedral. After half an hour of howling and squawking (thunderstorms) it was taken from...