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...Beethoven Symphony Orchestra, Georges Zaslawsky, conductor, made its debut as a permanent organization, gave an excellent first program, surprised critics of last year...
...Philadelphia Orchestra began with Fritz Reiner of the Cincinnati Symphony for guest the first half season. Sir Thomas Beecham (England), Ossip Gabrilowitsch (Detroit), Josef Willem Mengelberg (New York Philharmonic), Pierre Monteux (France) and Frederick Stock (Chicago) are possibilities for portions of the last half. Conductor Leopold Stokowski (whose arm is lamed) sailed last week for Europe and the Orient, to be away a year looking for new, unusual music...
...Rochester Philharmonic, Eugene Goossens, conductor, announced an all-Wagner concert for its first, Nov. 10. The theatre orchestra, established by George Eastman, will again be augmented by faculty members of the Eastman school, their expenses met by the Eastman Theatre Subscribers Association...
...Cleveland, the Orchestra began its tenth season under Nikolai Sokolov, its first and only conductor, under Adella Prentiss Hughes, its first and only manager. Twenty pairs of concerts were announced with such famed soloists as Josef Hofmann, Harold Samuel, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Paul Kochanski, Albert Spalding. Maurice Ravel will be guest conductor...
Trumpeters blew welcome from the stage, a standard bearer struck the first note of color and 50 singers in Renaissance dress, filed on. Conductor Sandro Benelli (brother of Poet Sem Benelli, author of The Jest) put them through their paces, helped them find pianissimos ineffably tender, failed to tie up smoothly whole sheafs of measures...