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...season-a time when symphony conductors take a rest and the players try to fathom the strange habits of guest conductors. With Conductor Artur Rodzinski away, the men of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony had just gotten used to fiddling and blowing in the allout way Guest Conductor Leopold Stokowski wanted. Now they had to get used to another guest conductor...
...Charles Munch, France's greatest conductor, pleaded with the men in rehearsal: "Gentlemen, gentlemen! Please play lightly." When the orchestra finally caught on, Charles Munch threw the men a kiss and shouted "Bravo!" In the musicians' locker room afterward, there was a buzz of enthusiasm; a good many of the Philharmonic players had caught some of the Munch spirit that is proverbial in Paris...
Orchestras of the Nation (Sat. 3 p.m., NBC). Dallas Symphony Orchestra in a program of Mozart, Hindemith, Copland. Conductor: Antal Dorati...
...symphony orchestras: "It is dollars to doughnuts that [the] conductor, preferably a foreigner for foreigners are so glamorous, has been selected from the stable of one New York manager whose favorable notice is the sole means of entrance to the field...
Boston Symphony (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). Beethoven's Prometheus overture, Haydn's Oxford Symphony, Strauss's Don Juan. Conductor: Bruno Walter...