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...easier said than done. State Department officials having heard that the Brazilian wanted to bring a female companion with him stalled over granting the necessary priorities. Conductor Werner Janssen fumed. So did the Brazilian Consul at Los Angeles. So did the Southern California Council on Inter-American Relations. Finally, at 2 o'clock on the day he was scheduled to arrive, Pan American Airways made an extra place on the plane, and Villa-Lobos and the lady were on the way. When they got to Los Angeles last week, a nervous official welcoming delegation was relieved when Villa-Lobos...
...rehearsed the Janssen Symphony within an inch of its life. ("The orchestra is magnifique," he apologized, ''the best with which I have played my music. But for myself who am not a conductor, I need more time.") He held three extra percussion rehearsals with eight drummers, ordered a special Portuguese rattle constructed (at Universal studios) at a cost of $100. When the orchestra finally swung into the sultry rhythms of his Sinfonia No. 2, Rudepóema and Chóros No. 6, Los Angeles decided that it was worth all the trouble...
...Conductor...
...with theatrical ambitions, began dancing and singing lessons when she was scarcely out of grade school. A brother played the trumpet and two sisters were pianists. A great aunt, Catherine Hayes, had sung opera in London, Rome and Vienna. Her grandfather, James J. Beggs, had toured the world as conductor of Buffalo Bill's band, and had been one of the founders of New York's Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians. Dorothy's two sisters gave up their careers for marriage, and her trumpeter brother ended up as a professor of music in Lenoir...
...chiefly in the choice of the sequence of notes and combinations). To campanologists they are known as the 1) Grandsire, 2) Plain Bob, 3) Treble Bob and 4) Stedman. Alterations in the order of changes are indicated during the performance by one of the ringers, who acts as conductor...