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Until 18 months ago, bright-eyed Pierino Gamba seemed like an ordinary Roman boy of eight who had taken a few piano lessons. He hated to wash and he liked to play with his electric train. Then his father, a baker, decided that Pierino should become a conductor...
...Conductor Artur Rodzinski wanted his new orchestra, the Chicago Symphony (TIME, Feb. 17), to strike a higher note than any musicians had ever even tried to strike before. A few broadcasts of his new orchestra, he told a press conference, might well bring peace to a savage world. He added...
...group, which called itself the Cleveland Little Symphony, were all members of the 92-man Cleveland Orchestra, who found themselves with time on their hands at season's end. They banded together as a profit-sharing cooperative. To lead them, they got Theodore Bloomfield, one of Conductor George Szell's bright young (24) assistants. (When he conducted a chamber orchestra in Manhattan last December, the New York Times pontificated: "Theodore Bloomfield is a find.") Verdict of Cleveland critics after last week's Mozart program: the Little Symphony was also a find...
...first appearance in Palestine of Manhattan's brilliant young (28) Conductor Leonard Bernstein (TIME, Feb. 24), whose admirers have made him a kind of Sinatra of symphony. But he had never seen anything like this. Partly the ovation was Jewish pride in him: the audience was all Jewish-not a single British soldier, policeman or government official was there...
...sports coat after a swim in the Dead Sea, Bernstein told newsmen exuberantly: "The Palestine Orchestra is potentially one of the greatest in the world. It should make a trip to the States next fall, but first it needs two solid months of real hard work under a single conductor." He gazed dreamily out of the window of Jerusalem's modernistic Eden Hotel and mused, "I hope I can be the guy to pull that...