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Tosca by Italian artists, the chorus of La Scala and the Milan Symphony, under Lorenzo Molajoli (Columbia, $21)-In-terruptions by an excited Italian claque are the only additions needed to make this Tosca sound completely realistic. All Conductor Molajoli's performances move at a swift, theatric pace...
...like music much. He is a lively and busy executive, a bank director, concert manager, and, primarily, president and treasurer of the San Carlo Opera Company. Once when he was running an opera company in California he suggested to Composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo, who was working for him as a conductor, that Pagliacci would make a good movie. Leoncavallo refused to allow his masterpiece to be photographed unless the music went with it, but Gallo did not drop the idea. Last week, with characteristic enterprise, he presented Pagliacci, in Italian, without color, made by his San Carlo singers and backed...
...Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, was present at a joint rehearsal of the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society in Sever Hall last night. This is the first time Dr. Koussevitzky has appeared to hear the Glee Club and the Choral Society go over the Bach Mass in B Minor, which they will sing in Symphony Hall in Boston during the Bach Festival, under his leadership...
...unpublished in his desk, because he scorns cheap workmanship and any form of self-exploitation, much of his music is comparatively unknown. Last week in Boston Sergei Koussevitzky conducted his Canticum Fratis Solis in addition to the Pagan Poem. Fortnight ago when the Cleveland Orchestra dedicated its new hall Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff chose Composer Loeffler to write the special Evocation and Composer Loeffler took one of his rare trips out of retirement to attend its performance...
...When a conductor with the reputation of Bernardino Molinari troubles to introduce a young pianist at a formal tea, when Arturo Toscanini lets it be known that he greatly admires him, the young pianist becomes a figure to be reckoned with. Twenty-six-year old Carlo Zecchi was the Italian so marked last week in Manhattan. He earned his honors with a fleet-fingered, high-strung performance of Liszt's E Flat Concerto with the Philharmonic-Symphony, then resumed a tour of some 35 concerts into the midwest.* Pianist Zecchi's friends say that...