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Unless an opera conductor blatantly offends, the average U. S. audience pays him scant attention, lets the general excellence of a performance go unmarked or attributes it to individual singers. Hence, last week, friends of Conductor Tullio Serafin of the Metropolitan Opera Company were pleased to hear of homage paid him in Philadelphia, where he appeared three times as guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he imparted to taxing symphonic programs the same glancing, theatric charm that has characterized his best performances at Manhattan's opera house...
...sentiment, not for gold, Soprano Dux-Swift was soloist at last week's Swift concert, given as usual at Orchestra Hall under Conductor David Alva Clippinger. The house, packed with Chicago socialites, long and loudly applauded her, demanded and got five encores. Another feature was the first performance of Outward Bound, Swift-prize-winning chorus composed by Franz Bornschein to a poem by Catherine Parmenter. Composer Bornschein, no Swift employe, has three times won the annual $100 prize. Honorable mention this year was awarded to Abram Moses of Baltimore and Gustav Mehner of Grove City...
PARSIFAL, Act III, by the Berlin State Opera Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Karl Muck (Victor, $16)-The world's most famed Parsifal conductor gives his version of Wagner's Grail opera...
ALBENIZ' IBERIA SUITE by the Madrid Symphony under Enrique Fernandez Arbos (Columbia, $6)-Typical Spanish rhythms deftly treated by Spain's greatest conductor only recently departed from the St. Louis Symphony...
March 21-26-Brahms Festival; at Symphony Hall, Boston. Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky...