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...Boston, Mrs. Alvan Tufts Fuller, wife of Governor Fuller, presented Serge Koussevitzky with the first Boston Symphony Orchestra records made under his leadership for the Victor Talking Machine Co. The records were of Stravinsky's Petrovshka and an excerpt from the new Apollon Musagete, both, according to Conductor Koussevitzky, peculiarly adapted for successful recording...
There are flippants who think of Ossip Gabrilowitsch as the little conductor with the highest collar in the world. There are others who know him better-as the Russian pianist who came to the U. S. and married Clara Clemens, Mark Twain's daughter, or as the conductor who went to Detroit and built up an orchestra there...
From Paris came roundabout word that Boston Symphony trustees have extended Conductor Serge Koussevitzky's contract indefinitely. The salary, it is said, "exceeds all expectations." Presumably it elevates Conductor Koussevitzky to a financial status comparable with that of Arturo Toscanini (New York Philharmonic Symphony) and Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski (Philadelphia Orchestra...
When ten-year-olds have birthdays they must have parties. True to its years, then, was the Cleveland Orchestra when last week at home it celebrated the tenth year of its existence, the tenth also under Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff and Manager Adella Prentiss Hughes. There was a birthday concert at the Auditorium with the program which was given on Dec. n, 1918. There was a birthday dance for the musicians and their friends. There was a birthday luncheon for principals and patrons, with wrist watches and eulogies for Conductor Sokoloff and Manager Hughes, and a cake with ten candles. Patron...
...nine orchestras in America which stand superior to the orchestras of any other country in the world-and the Cleveland Orchestra is included in that number. . . . And probably the principal reason it can stand up among the world's greatest is the fact that it has had one conductor for ten years. The idea that an orchestra must have a guest conductor every so often is like a series of companionate marriages. About as soon as the women begin to get used to one man, they have to start all over again and learn someone else's faults...