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Samuel Insull, patron, and Giorgio Polacco, conductor, of the Chicago Civic Opera, spent a half-hour explaining U. S. technical and artistic problems to Benito Mussolini...
...there met last week in Chicago some 7,400 music supervisors for the Second Biennial National Conference. Superintendent William. J. Bogan of the Chicago Public Schools spoke. So did Conference President Mabelle Glenn, music supervisor in Kansas City, Mo., and Vice President George H. Gartlan, music supervisor in Manhattan. Conductor Walter Damrosch talked proudly of his radio classes (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928) which numbered some 1,500,000 last year, 5,000,000 this, with 10,000,000 estimated for next year. President John Erskine of the Juilliard School of Music advocated state music centres, suggested supporting them...
Conducted by G. W. Woodworth '24, the orchestra of fifty men will play a program designed to be of interest to the average listener. Assisting them will be three soloists, George Brown '23, well-known Boston cellist and former conductor of the Pierian Sodality; 'M. H. Holmes '28, violinist and a member of the Conservatory Orchestra; and Miss Dorothy Comstock, a violinist. Brown will render the feature of the program, Bruch's "Kol Nidrel...
...Conductor. In the 33 years since his death, Brahms has achieved an immense popularity, especially with the musically meticulous. Perhaps for this reason Boston let itself wax particularly enthusiastic over last week's Festival. But there was another reason: Conductor Koussevitzky. For he is the Boston Brahmins' high priest and can do no wrong. He is handsome, distinguished in appearance, voted by many the Best-Dressed Man in Boston. He is an excellent musician, the world's greatest virtuoso on the double bass as well as one of the great conductors. His past has been romantic...
Enesco, whose compositions are known throughout Europe, graduated from the Paris Conservatory with highest honors in violin playing. He has appeared in Boston as a soloist and as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...