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...handle the musical end, Mayor LaGuardia imported a fiery Hungarian-born conductor named Laszlo Halasz, from the St. Louis Grand Opera. Halasz brought some St. Louis scenery, auditioned hun dreds of singers, rehearsed like mad for twelve weeks...
...London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting, with Louis Kentner; Columbia; 6 sides). First U.S. release of a European recording of one of Mozart's most ingratiating concertos. Performance: fair. Recording: good. Johann Strauss: Blue Danube Waltz (NBC Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor). A fascinating illustration of a great conductor's weakness. Maestro Toscanini's Danube is a swift torrent of molten lava. Recording: fair...
...Randall Thompson and "Casey Jones," arranged for the Harvard Glee Club of 1939 by Edward B. Lawton '34, the Glee Club will conclude by singing "Father William," from Alice in Wonderland," written for last year's Harvard Glee Club by Irving G. Fine '37, who is now assistant conductor of the Glee Club...
Artur Rodzinski, conductor of the New York Philharmonic, anathematized jazz. Said he: "With so many homes broken as a result of the family head serving in the armed forces, parental supervision is lacking, and this type of music leads to war degeneracy." For the rebuttal up rose Leopold Stokowski: "Some foreigners do not understand how rich the U.S. is in folk music. . . ." Said Frank Sinatra (whose worshipers had been labeled "pitiful cases" by Rodzinski): "Nuts! . . . After all, I grew up in a jazz craze, and I did all right...
Just before the King's Royal Rifle Corps embarked for North Africa in June 1942, Lieut. Michael Heming went to John Barbirolli, onetime conductor of New York's Philharmonic-Symphony, with a postdated request. Barbirolli knew of Heming's work at London's Royal College of Music, readily promised to give the only son of opera singer Percy Heming a postwar chance to learn conducting...