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When you hear the conductor swinging down the aisle chanting in that peculiar manner reserved for train conductors, Woodsole! Woodsole!," you will know that it is time to change from train coach to cool, windswept steamer deck is certainly a refreshing one, calculated to make you quickly forget about those unloved physics problems or the mad conclusion of Harvard Square...
...reporter: "I am willing to admit that there is an opera house here, my dear fellow, but nobody seems in charge of it." Sir Thomas had stepped ambitiously into the same musical scene which had proved almost too much for Leopold Stokowski last spring (TIME, June 5). But unlike Conductor Stokowski, who tried appeasement, Conductor Beecham proposed to deal with the situation in his own sharp, 18th-Century style...
Last week Father Finn published a book (The Conductor Raises His Baton; Harper's, $3.75). Extremely technical and written in a style of truly Celtic luxuriance, it is almost completely incomprehensible to laymen. But it is a required volume for students of sacred music and a fitting capstone to a distinguished musical career...
Harvard's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa announced six honorary memberships on Commencement Day. Elected were Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony; I. A. Richards, co-developer (with C. K. Ogden) of Basic English, and University Lecturer in English; Radcliffe's President Wilbur K. Jordan; Judge John F. Perkins '99, of the Boston Juvenile Court; Rudolph Altrocchi '07, Professor of Italian at the University of California and President of the Associated Harvard Clubs; and Delmar Leighton '17, Dean of Freshmen...
Clemens Krauss, Vienna born, onetime guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic, who rushed to Berlin in 1934 to accept a Nazi contract as conductor of the Berlin State Opera...