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Richard Burgin, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's concertmaster, conducted the Orchestra night before last at the opening concert of the 1948-49 series. While Mr. Burgin is not an unusually gifted conductor in his own right, his long association with the Boston Symphony has made him entirely capable of taking over the Orchestra in Dr. Koussevitzky's absence. Mr. Burgin showed excellent taste in choosing a program: the concert opened with Brahms' often-played Third Symphony, continued with the never-played Adagio from Bruckner's String Quintet, and finished with a suite from "The Fairy Tale of Tsar Saltan...
...France's equivalent of England's BBC orchestra) were greeted only by a French welcoming committee and a handful of curious bystanders. But these 96 men were just as determined as their predecessors to reveal the great soul of France. And they had France's best conductor to lead them, Charles Münch, who will become permanent conductor of the Boston Symphony next fall (TIME, April...
...time, Fritz Reiner's swimming got better and bolder. He was given a regular conductor's job in Budapest, then became director of the Dresden Opera, and an authority on Wagner, Richard Strauss, and his own favorite, Mozart. But in the U.S., where he has spent the past 26 years, he has been known primarily as a symphony conductor...
...night, 41 years ago, the Budapest Opera, had a crisis of another sort. It was nearly curtain time, and the conductor was ill. Who would conduct Carmen? In desperation, the director grabbed the 18-year-old singing coach, and ordered him into the pit. "I had no preparation," says Fritz Reiner of that night. "It was sink or swim. I swam...
...nine of the best years of its life. In Pittsburgh, which he quit last spring after a fight over managerial economies, he was known as a martinet who knew how to command good music. But all these years Fritz Reiner has been hankering for his old love. "A conductor must conduct opera," he says. "His life is not complete unless he does...