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...contract while she was still a student. Miliza Korjus was married to a Swedish engineer who wanted her to settle down and raise a family. But her records created such a furor that she was catapulted into a career in spite of herself. They attracted Germany's famed Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who auditioned her for the Berlin Opera. She sang there, off & on, for a couple of years, recorded about 50 arias for Victor on the side...
Arthur Rodzinski, brush-haired, Dalmatian-born conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, played conventional Bach and Beethoven for the opening concert of the orchestra's 103rd season in Carnegie Hall, then gave convention the boot by playing an encore-George Gershwin's jazzy / Got Rhythm. Although the first Philharmonic encore in many years brought down the house, it struck the New York Times's staid music critic, Olin Downes, as "an unwise impulse...
...Mannheim Jewess who managed to stay in the midst of Nazi musical politics until her escape from Germany before the war. Miss Geissmar was secretary of the Berlin Philharmonic. Her book gives an intimate picture of one of Nazi Germany's two world-famed musical figures, Conductor Wilhelm FurtwĠngler (the other: Composer Richard Strauss...
...tohu-bohu of the liberated Parisians, French musical culture began to be heard from. Most of the musicians, French and foreign, who had made Paris a prewar center of musical fashion had escaped into exile. Among those still in the U.S. were Composers Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Bohuslav Martinu, Conductor Pierre Monteux, Pianist Robert Casadesus, Piano Teacher Isidor Philipp...
Born on Manhattan's Third Avenue 40 years ago, Bendix was the son of a singer, had one uncle who was a concert violinist, another who was a conductor at the Metropolitan. Spurning the family profession, he started life as a bat-boy for the New York Giants, later did some amateur acting at the Henry Street Settlement. He became a grocery clerk while still in his teens, eventually wound up as manager of a store in Orange...