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...states that you cannot give convincing performances of an opera in a language which the east does not understand. Corollary two demonstrates that singers must be able to do more than get their notes right--though this is considered important. As a result, less attention is paid to the conductor and more to the score...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Twentieth Century composers; including Ravel's Mother Goose and Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for strings; Wilfred Pelletier, guest conductor...
...Thomas Beecham, a good if not great conductor, is a great instigator of orchestras. This week he conducted his sixth. His ready reason for the new venture: "There is no existing British orchestra of a high enough standard to maintain my reputation...
...opera season gets off to a fortissimo start in San Francisco this week. The opening Lohengrin will star a new Swedish tenor named Set Svanholm and the Metropolitan Opera's Astrid Varnay. In the orchestra pit will be 47-year-old, parrot-nosed William Steinberg, a favorite conductor of the paladin of all conductors, Arturo Toscanini...
...years later Steinberg came to New York as associate conductor of the NBC Symphony-and became famous among orchestra men as the one & only conductor from whom Toscanini invited criticism. With Toscanini's blessing Steinberg was appointed conductor of the San Francisco Opera in 1944, and of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in 1945. He built the feeble third-rate Philharmonic into a strong second-rate orchestra in just one year...