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Died. Albert Stoessel, 48, violinist, conductor, composer; of a heart attack while conducting; in Manhattan. He was also a distinguished teacher, in 1921 succeeded Walter Damrosch as maestro of New York's Oratorio Society, wrote an American opera (Garrick), was a guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony...
Yesterday morning's papers briefly mentioned the rather surprising fact that the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of its new conductor, Artur Rodzihski, would on May 23 begin a series of 52 concerts over the Columbia Broadcasting System. In view of the rather astonishing changes that the orchestra has undergone during the past few months, and its general decline during the past season, the announcement is highly unexpected...
When Dr. Rodzinski was appointed permanent conductor of the Philharmonic earlier this season, he wasted no time in following the precedent which he had previously used in his first days in Cleveland, and which had been laid down earlier and even more dramatically by Koussevitsky in his first years in Boston. At any rate, when the smoke cleared, fourteen members of the orchestra, including Michel Piastro, the concertmaster, had been effectively purged, and all efforts to force the Board of Trustees or Rodzinski to re-engage them for another season had, for unknown reasons, weakly faded away. The Philharmonic...
Shean watched the first rounds of the London blitz from a sunken road near Gravesend. While the Nazi bombers came over in formations of 30, a suburban bus drew up. "All hell seemed to have broken loose in the air above and all around us, "but the bus conductor sat quietly totting up his receipts. The guard told a story: "There was a bloody monkey hanging by his bloody tail in the jungle . .. and along came a bloody air-raid warden. One monkey says to the other monkey, 'Look out, Jock, here's this bloody bastard comin...
...Some observers," reported the Charlotte Observer, "inclined to the opinion that the delayed-baggage incident served to inspire, rather than depress, them." All agreed that Conductor Rodzinski had more than measured up to the emergency. Happily - for it was no dream - he had discovered in time the absence of a couple of influential trouser buttons...