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With regret operagoers heard last week that Arthur Bodanzky, conductor of German Opera at the Metropolitan since 1915, will resign at the end of the season. Conductor Bodanzky wants his time for the Friends of Music Society, for festivals abroad. His place at the Metropolitan will be taken by Joseph Rosenstock, now at the State Opera in Wiesbaden...
...Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski has a way of taking his Philadelphia audiences to account. Last week they annoyed him by coming late to a concert, clattering down the aisles, banging down seats. He stopped the music, wheeled on them: "Please, please don't make those noises. They are very distracting. We work hard all week to give you this music, but I cannot do my best without your aid. I'll give you my best or I won't give you anything. It is for you to choose...
Twenty years ago there was no greater contrabassist in all Europe than Serge Koussevitzky but he outgrew even that colossal instrument, became a conductor. Not until last year did he gather his admiring Bostonians around him and show them what he used to do with the double-bass. Boston rhapsodized but Manhattan waited to form her own judgment. In Boston King Koussevitzky can do no wrong. Neither could he last week in Manhattan. Of his first double-bass recital there, Critic Lawrence Oilman wrote in part...
...Cincinnati an orchestra played without a leader.* It was an all-Schubert program and the season's first concert. Brilliantly, Conductor Fritz Reiner began with the Rosamunde overture, the C-major Symphony. After intermission he sent the players on stage alone for the Unfinished Symphony. The results pleased the keen ears of the Cincinnatians, the keener ears of Conductor Reiner...
Manhattan's Beethoven Symphony Orchestra struck financial snags last week. Unpaid, 102 musicians refused to rehearse. That payroll was finally met, patrons were reassured; but when they arrived for the next concert, placards posted outside told them it had been postponed. Conductor Georges Zaslawsky complained of a heart attack. Violinist Paul Kochanski, who was to have been soloist, complained he was not paid according to contract. Rumor had it that Mrs. Clarence Chew Burger, the Symphony's chief underwriter and conductor's friend, had withdrawn her support...