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Lionel Barrymore's pleasant symphonic Partita was played by Conductor Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, was well received by Indiana-politans. Said intense Russian Sevitzky (nephew of Boston's Serge Koussevitsky): "Barrymore has as much talent musically as he has dramatically." The actor started composing at 18, modeled his work after his idols Bach and Handel, in 1942 orchestrated McDowell's Sea Pieces (originally for piano). Said Barrymore of Sevitzky: "We don't know each other and yet are good friends. He sees me one day on the screen and I listen the next...
Kostelanetz, who a few years ago was called America's number one air lines passenger, is still one of the most widely-travelled conductors in America. In his coast to coast concert tour during the 1943-44 season, he has appeared as guest conductor with leading symphony orchestras in the United States and Canada...
Andre Kostelanetz, popular. symphony orchestra conductor, will appear in Sanders Theatre on Thursday, March 23, for the first time, as guest conductor of the Boston symphony Orchestra, during its regular winter season...
Born in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), Kostelanetz made his professional debut as a concert pianist at the age of eight, and won his first major conducting assignment as Conductor of the Petrograd Grand Opera Orchestra when 19. He came to this country in 1927, and in 1930 was made conductor of one of the symphony orchestras of the Columbia Broadcasting System...
Freddie Kuh wanted to be a newspaper man "from the time I quit wanting to be a streetcar conductor." At the University of Chicago "I ran the college paper and studied billiards." He was in Vienna in 1919 when the London Daily Herald made him its Balkans reporter. United Press got him four years later, sent him to Moscow and Berlin. When the Nazis made it hot for him after he had reported their Reichstag arson plot as just that, he moved on to London. Marshall Field lured...