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Distribution of the remaining 140 free tickets to conductor Bruno Walter's Wednesday lecture on Mozart's "The Magic Flute" will be carried on during the next three days by the secretary of the Phillips Brooks House...
...from Maestro Karl Krueger, her conductor and friend, Margaret began. She tackled the reasonably simple Cielito Lindo with power and control, sang the tricky aria, Charmant Oiseau, with swooping zest (and a few flat notes), and coasted home with the well-worn Last Rose of Summer, a song her father had requested...
Burning-eyed Conductor Otto Klemperer, 61, who left Germany when Hitler was taking over, reappeared in Los Angeles. Seven years ago he had been operated on for a brain tumor. He had not had a steady job since 1941. Last spring he made a brilliant musical comeback in Rome, Milan, Paris. Last week he was found lying on a street corner just before dawn, his head cut and bruised. Two strangers in a nightclub had offered to drive him to another spot to hear some real jazz, said Dr. Klemperer, and on the way, they suddenly robbed...
Meanwhile, in Paris, Messiaen was composing a "very important work" commissioned by the Boston Symphony's Conductor Serge Koussevitzky. It is a symphony, he said, which will have eight movements instead of the usual four...
...Lamb. If they were guided by the critics at all, record-buyers frequently found the critics disagreeing. Last week, for the first time, five U.S. music critics* sang in harmony. For a magazine called the Review of Recorded Music they picked the year's best classical recordings. Only Conductor Arturo Toscanini (see above) won two ribbons. The critics' choices...