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...High praise was accorded Conductor Tullio Serafin and Stage Designer Joseph Urban...
...leave the hall. . . . His name is Yehudi Menuhin. He is 10. He was born in New York, raised in San Francisco. His parents came from Palestine. Both San Francisco and Manhattan have cheered his playing. After hearing him do the solo parts in Lalo's "Symphonie Espagnole" under Conductor Paul Paray of the famed Lamoureux orchestra in his first Paris concert, Paris critics said: "Not since the- child Mozart, seated on a pile of music on a piano stool...
...short, thick figure of Arturo Toscanini stood on the conductor's dais at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, last week. Italians, Germans, Americans beat their palms together, cheered. Soon he turned his back on them, raised his baton. He was no longer Toscanini, but Ludwig van Beethoven-the Beethoven of the surging First and the grandiose Ninth Symphonies. He needed no score to make soloists of the thousand musicians of the Philharmonic Orchestra. Beethoven was in his eyes, his fingertips, his baton. . . . The concert ended. There was a mighty ovation. The audience went home with its marrow tingling; critics groped...
...husband and a wife gave an all-German program at Steinway Hall, Manhattan, last week. The husband, Otto Klemperer, tall guest conductor of the New York Symphony, lifted no baton that night. Dramatic, he sat at the piano; his long fingers played accompaniments to four songs of his own composition, while his wife, Johanna Klemperer, sang. Her voice, except when she lifted it above F sharp, was rich, colorful, expressive. The song "Es war ein Koenig in Thule" was the most original...
...Davison '06, director of the Harvard Glee Club, is conducting these rehearsals. Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will lead the united members of the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the two performances...