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...Casella has appeared in practically every musical center of the world in all of his multiple roles. His first visit to the United States during the season 1921-22 was perhaps the outstanding musical event of the year. The Philadelphia Orchestra first presented him as a soloist and conductor in his "Pagine di Guerra." With the Minneapolis, Detroit, and Cincinnati Orchestras he conducted his "Rhapsody Italia" and also appeared as pianist. His debut recital in New York aroused such interest that two others were hastily arranged, making three recitals within one month...
...convinced that symphonic salaries could be boosted no higher. In consequence President James C. Petrillo of the Chicago Musicians Association was obliged to announce that there will be no Chicago Symphony next year. Messrs. Jiskra, Recoschewitz, Napolilli, Trnka, et al. prepared, as a bad press punster wrote, to disband. Conductor Frederick A. Stock, however, was reported reengaged at his usual salary, to give him time to compose...
Thirty-three members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with Arthur Fiedler, Conductor, will give a concert in the Museum of Fine Arts, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The entire museum will be open from 7 until 11 o'clock, and no admission will be charged...
...Hall (seating capacity, 600), under the supervision of Rochester University. Its personnel is made up of students of music at the University, brought together through a competition for scholarships that pay, in addition to tuition, $50 a week. After four years' study and practice, under the guidance of Conductor Eugene Goossens, one-time conductor at Covent Garden, onetime guest conductor...
Last week the Philharmonic Society of New York, angling for conductors for its orchestra, made the prize catch of the year. The directors announced that they had engaged Arturo Toscanini, world-famed Director of La Scala in Milan, as a regular conductor; he will lead the Philharmonic symphony in 41 concerts next season. Conductor Toscanini, slim, volatile, once successfully defied Il Duce; he is considered the world's finest leader of orchestras...