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...Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, conductor, will give 102 concerts, 78 of them in Philadelphia. There will be the regular series of 29 Friday afternoon and Saturday evening concerts, begin- ning Oct. 8 and ending April 30, and 10 Monday evening concerts and a double series of young people's concerts Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Out of town appearances will be in New York (10), Baltimore (5), Washington (3), Indianapolis, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland. Among the soloists will be Moriz Rosenthai, Sergei Rachmaninov, Clara Haskil, Walter Gieseking, Efrem Zimbalist, Ruth Breton, Maurice Marechal, Lauritz Melchior...
Furtwangler, conductors, Arturo Toscanini, guest conductor, will open its season in Philadelphia on Oct. 13, give its first Manhattan concert on Oct. 14. Mr. Mengelberg's novelties will include Howard Hanson's Pan and the Priest, a tone poem for violin and orchestra by Templeton Strong, U. S. composer living in Geneva (Josef Szigeti, soloist); the first performance of Scriabin's piano concerto (Gitta Gradova, soloist); a fantasy by Darius Milhaud for piano and orchestra; Szymanowski's Third Symphony; J. C. Bach's Sinfonia; Bloch's Israel, Honegger's Tempest overture; Pfitzner...
...York Symphony, Walter Damrosch, conductor, Otto Klemperer and Fritz Busch, guest conductors, will give 20 Sunday afternoon concerts, beginning on Oct. 31, 12 Thursday afternoon and 12 Friday evening concerts, 6 Saturday afternoon concerts for young people and 5 Saturday morning concerts for children. Under Dr. Damrosch six new works by six composers of six different countries will be played: De Falla's marionette opera, El Retablo de Maese Pedro, Sibelius' Tapiola, Casella's Scarlatina, Honegger's Phaedre, Ernst Hallfter's Spanish Suite, a symphony by Austin George Antheil, Milhaud's Ballad for Piano...
...thousands there in the flesh stamped their approval, hurled their straw mats into the air, restrained themselves patiently to hear yet another speech by Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten. The thousands far away, in stuffy sitting-rooms, carpet-slippered, collarless, on cottage porches lit by a cool, waning moon, heard the last tremendous strains of the overture, whisked their dials around to another station. The Manhattan outdoor concert season had ended...
...exempt. Arturo Toscanini, for years illustriously inseparable from La Scala in Milan, will reputedly conduct this winter at Costanza Opera in Rome. At La Scala it is whispered that the baton of Bernardino Molinari will flicker. Neapolitans, devotees of the famed San Carlos Opera will hail as their chief conductor, this winter, Tullio Serafin, long a brilliant conductor for the Metropolitan Opera of Manhattan. Pietro Mascagni will go to the Augustep, chief concert hall of Romans, it is said...