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Said a Brussels streetcar conductor: "The Russians are damned asses...
Pierre Monteux, French-born conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, was seeing through a beefsteak, darkly. While watching his first baseball game in Hancock, Me. he was bopped in the eye by a foul ball. But along with the shiner he acquired wisdom: "Now I understand why baseball is so popular. Even when you only watch it, you are part of the game...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Glazounov's Carnaval Overture, Lekeu's Adagio for Strings. Conductor: Frank Black...
Last week, kindly, bustling Max Reiter was back in Manhattan as guest conductor of the ABC Symphony Orchestra. In eight years in San Antonio, he had turned 40 homespun musicians into a smoothly functioning symphony of 78 pieces. Among the treasures in his new scrapbook: U.S. citizenship, a letter from the maestro he had once trembled before in Milan. Wrote Toscanini, after hearing a Reiter broadcast: "A fine performance, which is a thing that does not happen very often even with famous orchestras and widely publicized conductors...
Placid Loafers. In Linden, circa 1895, the pace of life was leisurely. The horse-cars would stop while conductor and passengers got out to give some neighbor a hand. When a fire started, the volunteer fire fighters seldom got to the scene before the building was leveled. Most people worked hard but were not acquisitive enough, says Paul, to kill themselves at it. Even the town loafers, apparently a numerous caste, he remembers with respect for their placid bearing while their wives took in washing to support the family. But they were true to their natures, and so, it seems...