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...applause that rolled across the lawns from the great wedge-shaped Music Shed at week's end was still not extravagant, but it had warmed up by several degrees. Conductor Koussevitzky had let Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra give the world premiere of Britten's Spring Symphony last month, even though he had commissioned it. Last week he was prepared to do the symphony justice himself...
...Francisco's famed, roly-poly Conductor Pierre Monteux braved the 95° heat of New York City's Lewisohn Stadium ("The weather-eet ees brutal"), to lead the Philharmonic Symphony for a week. Gushed effusive Concert Chairman Mrs. Charles S. ("Minnie") Guggenheimer of Monteux's reading of Beethoven's Fifth: "Simply magnificent! It wasn't at all like Beethoven!" The directors of Chicago's Ravinia Music Festival advertised a smooth combo to perform some trios by Schubert, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. The lineup: Jascha Heifetz, Artur Rubinstein, Gregor Piatigorsky. Northwestern University promised to lend...
...Fidelio, the company had an unquestionably great voice, that of Guest Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, and Conductor Furtwngler gave a masterly reading of the score that won him a ten-minute personal ovation...
Since war's end, Salzburg has had to watch the rise of another fine summer festival at Edinburgh. Said one Salzburg conductor last week: let Edinburgh go on being "an international, large-scale musical review"; Salzburg had its own "vernacular"-which was another way of saying that Salzburg would stick to the old tasks, and accomplish them...
Died. Mrs. Margaret Elaine Damrosch, 82, wife of Conductor-Composer Walter Damrosch, daughter of onetime Secretary of State and Presidential Candidate James G. Elaine; in Bar Harbor...