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...Thomas Beecham, chin-whiskered conductor of the London Philharmonic, who sounds off at the drop of a demiquaver, steamed into the port of Southampton from his latest U.S. junket, and sounded off: "Hollywood is a universal disaster compared to which Hitler, Himmler and Mussolini were trivial and fleeting incidents. . . . All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women...
Save Your Fury. Mahler's widow, now in her sixties, was a 20-year-old counterpoint student when she married the slight, 41-year-old opera conductor. His ferociousness in the orchestra pit was already a legend. By abolishing the claque and ordering latecomers toa special box, Mahler had angered performers and audiences alike. Once the musicians stubbornly refused to rehearse another note, and Mahler barked: "Gentlemen, keep your fury for the performance. Then at last we shall have [it] played as it should...
...Conductor-Composer David Rose (Holiday for Strings, etc.), fresh out of the Army, began his own program, boasted that he would compose a new tune for every broadcast...
...prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan. . . . The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible trem'e pipe to the differential girdlespring on the 'up' end of the grammeters...
Schwieger was once conductor at the Staatsoper in Berlin. Fort Wayne had him now because he had married a Jewess. When the Nazis took over, his wife divorced him for his sake, but without his knowledge. He came to the U.S. via Japan, then sent for his wife and remarried her. After Pearl Harbor the FBI seized Schwieger as an enemy alien; he was held for 401 days until friends got him out. The day he came home from jail, his wife dropped dead...