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John Smallman, the founder and conductor, knows how to manage his singers, and to bring out the range and power of their voices. And the choir was unfailing responsive to his demands upon it. As a last suggestion: if there were some more definite way of establishing among the singers the pitch of each song--none was apparent to the audience--such unfortunate excursions off the key as occurred in the "Irish Tune from County Derry" might be avoided...
Emil Cooper, famed Russian conductor who has introduced much Slavic music to Western Europe, made his U. S. debut. While laymen in the audience concentrated on the amateurish antics of Singer McCormic, critics marked Conductor Cooper's bright tempo, his fine sense of balance...
...have kept the Puccini operas off the air. Last week, however, the ban was lifted and beginning Saturday evening. Nov. 16, a series of six condensed versions will go on the U. S. air?to advertise American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp.? Madame Butterfly will be first, with Conductor Gennaro Papi, Soprano Frances Alda. Contralto Merle Alcock. Tenors Mario Chamlee and Alfred O'Shea. Baritone Pasquale Amato. Tosca will be presented in December, The Girl of the Golden West in January, Manon Lescaut in February, the so-called tryptich (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi) in March, La Boheme...
Leopold Stokowski, proud conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, last week turned upon his applauding audience and said: "This strange beating together of hands has no meaning. To me it is very disturbing. We try to make sounds like music, and then in between comes this strange sound that you make. I am not criticizing you. I am criticizing a custom. I don't know where it originated, but probably back in some dark forest in medieval days." Delighted, the audience clapped loudly...
Last week, at the Metropolitan's second performance, inevitably Die Meistersinger, Conductor Rosenstock made his debut. His appearance bore no resemblance to the proud, satanic figure of Bodanzky. Like a precocious, shy, near-sighted schoolboy he came out from under the stage, wangled his way almost apologetically through the string-players, bowed to a cordial hand-clapping. Out went the lights. He chose a baton from the rack and began a careful, orthodox Vorspiel. Care alone, however, could not make it clean, clear-cut. Sometimes it raced confusedly, as did parts of the opera which followed. Occasionally it groped...