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Eveninq with Romberg (Tues. 10:30 p.m., NBC). Composer-Conductor Sigmund Romberg leads his orchestra in semi-classical music. Soloists: Soprano Genevieve Rowe and Basso Reinhold Schmidt...
...Thomas Beecham, explosively opinionated conductor of the London Philharmonic, exploded again, this time not with a bang but a phfft. In May, recently home from a U.S. tour, he had called Hollywood "a universal disaster compared to which Hitler, Himmler and Mussolini were trivial." Now he qualified his damnation, decided that it was "the last word in triviality and morbidity...
...each other like a musical Babel. Behind a boxed hemlock hedge a soprano and contralto sang a duet from Aida, beyond another hedge a section of cellos rehearsed the minuet from Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 in F Major. In the Music Shed on the greensward a Brazilian conductor, who spoke no English, sign-signaled a student orchestra through a too-briskly gaited Afternoon of a Faun. Koussevitzky observed: "Maybe fine conductor for Brazilian music but he needs to be teached to change approach for European music." In Tanglewood's garage, a 40-member four-part chorus, struggling...
Fielding's first importation was Conductor Andre Kostelanetz and wife Lily Pons. Critics mauled Kostelanetz's opening program of classical bromides and filigree jazz. Said the Daily Mail: "The minuet [third movement of Beethoven's First Symphony] was turned into a gallop and the finale beat all musical records on the dirt track. Lily Pons, otherwise Mrs. Kostelanetz, sang Lo, Here the Gentle Lark, Caro Nome and other coloratura tidbits. Such agile vocalizing may have impressed the film fans but it sounded very old-fashioned...
Pale and exhausted, the Detroit Symphony's Conductor Karl Krueger returned to the U.S. last week. From three months of conducting in Europe he brought back two prizes that made his trip worthwhile...