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...Equally unfortunate," the composer-conductor said, "are the results of a recent decision of the American Federation of Musicians which enables broadcasters to air the same program simultaneously over long wave and frequency modulation transmitters...
...pipe, but Violinist Zino Francescatti acted very much at home. Instead of a fireplace, however, he had the audience in Carnegie Hall in front of him last week, and the Philadelphia Orchestra behind him. When he wasn't fiddling, he lolled comfortably near the podium, gestured familiarly to Conductor Eugene Ormandy, even stage-whispered to him during the concerto. "That was pretty good;" he would say to Ormandy, or "We got it that time...
...Symphony Orchestra's trustees weren't willing to go deep into debt to pay for it. To get back in the black, they chopped three weeks off the coming season-even though the season was already barely long enough to keep many of the players going. Said Conductor Fritz Reiner, "I am willing to have my salary cut. I am not willing to have the orchestra cut." So last week he quit...
...Conductor Reiner, 59, a grown-up wonder boy who conducted his first orchestra at twelve, would have little trouble finding some other podium to wave from. He is a first-rate conductor of Mozart and Strauss operas-and the Metropolitan Opera badly needs additional conductors (one recently died, two others have been ill on & off). Besides, there is the increasingly attractive guest conductors' circuit, with few of the cares and all the pleasures of a regular berth. At week's end, the Minneapolis Symphony snapped him up for eight concerts in October. The only real loser was Pittsburgh...
...have little choice but to cancel the tour," stated G. Wallace Woodworth '24, professor of Music and Glee Club conductor, explaining regretfully that the major part of the trip was to have been though Sweden and Holland. The remainder of the tour consisted only of short three-day jaunts through Denmark, Finland, and Norway...