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...Tokuji Hayakawa, onetime railway conductor, now builder-operator of the newly opened Tokyo subway (TIME, Jan. 9), contrasted, last week, his construction methods with those used in Manhattan. Since a great part of Tokyo is not, like Manhattan founded upon a rock, no drilling whatever was necessary and the Tokyo tube was simply buried in trenches cut with ease in the soft soil...
...Tartar wife. There was no money at home to pay for a nursegirl and there were symphony concerts outside to be had for the going, so Yehudi, when he was not quite a year old, was taken along. The Menuhins scarcely ever missed a concert from then on until Conductor Alfred Hertz and all his musicians came to know them, and call the baby their mascot. Yehudi's first interest was in Concert- master Louis Persinger. He wanted to touch him, to finger the strings of his violin. When Yehudi was four years and ten months old, Persinger became...
This week Winona will be given its second presentation, in Minneapolis. There last week plans were made to make it a major event. Mayor George E. Leach was to attend. Composer Bimboni, turned conductor, was working with his orchestra, when word arrived that the American Opera Society of Chicago, of which Edith Rockefeller McCormick is ardent honorary president, had voted him the David Bispham Memorial Medal for distinguished service in the furtherance of American music, that he would be awarded it this week at the Minneapolis performance...
WANTED, by the New York Symphony -a conductor. For three seasons now, since Walter Damrosch first hinted that his days of active service were numbered, Manhattan has known the New York Symphony Society to be on the lookout for a new and permanent conductor. The German Otto Klemperer (Wiesbaden) was imported for two seasons, tried and found wanting. So was the German Fritz Busch (Dresden) who just completed a trial term of nearly three months. Not for some time, in fact, has anything akin to satisfaction prevailed at a New York Symphony concert until last week. Then Ossip Gabrilowitsch, borrowed...
...Rotate the trunk and arms in regular count. That was for the full band. He postured this way and that, flung his body into a dozen foolish positions. For five minutes and more the audience sat in a smothered giggle. Critics were delighted to see a new conductor who would make good copy...