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...Paul the Apostle, who trained and directed his singers as a "demonstration" in his lifelong fight to revive Renaissance music. Irreverent observers (who nonetheless have a wholesome respect for Father Finn's showmanship) promptly dubbed the choir "Finn's Jennies." The talkative, 63-year-old conductor called them "esthetically aware...
Harris got the whole city into the act. Last week, the windows of Sherer's department store displayed Russian costumes, handicrafts, Margaret Bourke-White photos of a Russian Woman Shock Brigadier, a Moscow streetcar conductor, Stalin's great-aunt. Worcester's Museum of Natural History put on a show of Russian posters. The Public Library plugged books on Russia. The Art Museum gave a gallery to Marc Chagall, Ossip Zadkine. Boris Grigoriev. Women's clubs listened to talks on Russia; school children heard about Russia, wrote themes on Russia...
...Society of the Ancient Instruments, whose recordings have long been treasured by chamber-music addicts, is a nonprofit labor of love. It is the creation of a little grey-maned, Dutch-born music teacher named Ben Stad. Conductor Stad, 59, came to the U.S. in 1908, eventually founded Philadelphia's Institute of Musical Art. Some 20 years ago, it occurred to him that modern instruments like the piano and violin were not suited to the music written for harpsichord and viole d'amour during the 17th and 18th Centuries. This idea was the beginning of Ben Stad...
Credit for the suave showmanship went to Conductor Karl Kreuger, 50, U.S.-born, Vienna-trained, one of the four top native-born maestros in the U.S. (the others: Leonard Bernstein, Werner Janssen, Alfred Wallenstein). Maestro Kreuger had snatched up Detroit's baton late in 1943, whipped his 110 players into shape in record time. Carnegie Hall rewarded his energy with a favorable verdict: Detroit's music is as lush, efficient, unsubtle and breath-taking as Detroit's glamor-drawings of the postwar family sedan...
Born. To Artur Rodzinski, 51, thick-thatched Polish-American conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra; and Halina Lilpop Rodzinski, 40, his handsome, sunny-haired second wife: their first (his second) child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Richard. Weight...