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Karl Krueger, who resigned last April after ten years' leadership of the Kansas City Philharmonic, announced that he had also found a bigger job. In October Conductor Krueger will head the revived * and reorganized Detroit Symphony...
Melvin A. "Mel" Otterson, 4-43, Florida Southern College '41, and Miami. He plays the bass viol, and got his training at New Hampshire State Teachers College, where he was assistant band and orchestra conductor. He specializes in arranging and plays the electric guitar and the trumpet--this versatile gent also composes on the side...
...next day-contemplating my reservation, which I still held blissfully in my hand. I finally got a seat in the men's room of a Pullman car. Arriving at Springfield, Mo. ... I once again held a reservation for an upper berth, but was informed very pleasantly by the conductor that the people in Kansas City had had a slight mix-up and that John Q. Civilian was once again in my berth. I rode once again upon a collapsing suitcase into Atlanta, and decided to take a chance on reporting a day late, and get some sleep, which...
...broom closet would really be a dilly, and after all the ten men and true of D-41 McKinlock can always, like the street car conductor, find room for one more. So rally round, boys, leave your small change with Uncle George and we'll get that cablegram off right away. Or possibly make last Sunday night's beer party a weekly event...
...started last summer when Conductor Eugene Goossens of the Cincinnati Symphony gazed into the blue vacation waters off the Maine coast. What could he do in the war effort? What music would forward the spirit of the times? At length Conductor Goossens wrote to 26 modern composers asking for instrumental flourishes of the sort known as fanfares. Nineteen responded. Six Goossens fanfares are now being played by the NBC Orchestra in six weekly broadcasts of Music at War.* They are Morton Gould's Fanfare for Freedom; Henry Cowell's Fanfare for the Forces of Our Latin-American Allies...