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...Thomas Beecham, white-bearded British conductor who likes to distribute pieces of his mind, arrived in Manhattan with Lady Beecham. He was as generous as ever. Sir Thomas, 68, on Italy's eight-year-old Conductor Ferruccio Burco, who had arrived for a U.S. tour a few days before: "Who is responsible for this outrage? . . . Where are your police? The boy should be in kindergarten sucking a lollipop."* On musicians generally: "Musicians have no reason to be stuffy. I've seen an orangutan play the flute." On the state of things: "The world is drifting into barbarism...
...phone rang in the Chicago Symphony's office, and a familiar voice spoke all-too-familiar words: "Dr. Rodzinski cannot conduct rehearsal today." Assistant Conductor Tauno Hannikainen was hurriedly called in. He had just 24 hours to rehearse with the soloist (Pianist Myra Hess) and to start learning Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Several hours later, the phone rang again; once again it was Mrs. Rodzinski on the line: "Dr. Rodzinski is better; he will conduct the Shostakovich; Hannikainen can conduct the rest." But the orchestra's trustees had already heard enough. Midway through the concert next...
...only the piano player and the first horn were new). He had given Chicagoans the finest opera they had heard in years: a concert version of Elektra with Marjorie Lawrence, and Tristan und Isolde with Kirsten Flagstad. He had given the musicians some rough treatment at rehearsals -but no conductor was ever fired for that, so long as he produced good music...
...Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. Soloists: Kathleen Ferrier, Set Svanholm. Conductor: Bruno Walter...
Orchestras of the Nation (Sat. 3 p.m., NBC). The Charleston (W.Va.) Symphony Orchestra plays Kalinnikov's First Symphony. Conductor: AntonioModarelli...