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Serge Koussevitzky, famed Russian-born conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, received a touching "Bravo!" Wrote his 80-year-old sister Anyuta, from Russia: "Brother Serezha! Our family has had plenty of trouble. Our dear [brother] Nicholas perished in Leningrad in 1941 at the hands of the Fascist butchers. Only thou and I are left, my beloved brother. ... I have heard that thou, with thy work, also art helping our common cause, the destruction of our common enemy. . . . All my life I have been proud of thee and I shall be proud of thee until my last days...
...featured in his own ballet together with Janet Reed. Born Jerome Rabinowitz, Robbins grew up in Weehawken, N.J., was in & out of little dance groups for six years without getting anywhere. He started plotting Fancy Free last June, got the New York Philharmonic's 25-year-old assistant conductor Leonard Bernstein to do the music. Now Hollywood and Broadway will not let Robbins alone. Says he, the son of a corset manufacturer: "Who am I? Just a guy from Weehawken, and all of a sudden-boom...
...from Gangdom. Hungarian-born Eugene Ormandy is the only important U.S. conductor who ever climbed from the pit of a Broadway movie house. The climb began in 1920 when Ormandy, then a moderately gifted European concert violinist, arrived in Manhattan with a contract for a $30,000 concert tour, found that both the $30,000 and the impresario had vanished. Ormandy was down to his last nickel when he landed a job with the late Samuel L. (Roxy) Rothafel, who set him to fiddling in the last row of the second violin section at Broadway's Capitol Theater. Ormandy...
...part of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Three years afterward, when Toscanini backed out of a two-weeks' engagement with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Impresario Judson offered the thankless job to Ormandy. Said Judson: "I think it is absolute suicide." Ormandy clicked at once. Immediate result: he was appointed chief conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony. After five years in Minneapolis, Ormandy went to Philadelphia, eventually succeeded Stokowski as chief conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, one of the four big U.S. conducting jobs...
...also has the critics: Mexico's music critics takes a dim and lofty view of music that U.S. critics accept with mild applause. Last month Conductor Leopold Stokowski, who is not accustomed to rough handling, got an abrasive going-over by Mexico City's music critics: he had the temerity to offer Mexicanos lush popular arrangements...