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Besides Dr. Koussevitsky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, last Friday afternoon and Saturday evening Symphony Hall boasted of a narrator, a guest conductor, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard Glee Club with tow soloists. The equally impressive program consisting of four works could lay claim to one world and two Boston premier performances. Yet, out of all the novelty and excitement emerged a concert which will rank with the foremost of the current season...
...Radcliffe Choir and the Pierian Sodality led respectively by G. Wallace Woodworth and Malcolm H. Holmes, invaded the hidden recesses of Brunswick, Maine, and when they again crawled into the open before an audience, they were accompanied by a bewildered Bowdoin College Glee Club and its frantically gesticulating conductor, Mr. Frederic Tillotson. I trust that the experiment will not be repeated...
...they had only sung off pitch, weakly, colorlessly, or with poor diction, the effect would not have been so bad. But when all these are coupled with a poorly selected group (consisted of nothing but Josquin des Pres, Hassler, Lotti, and Leisring) and an acrobatic figure on the conductor's stand, the limit has been surpassed...
Claiming that records made by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under his direction were imperfect, goateed British Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham sued Columbia Recording Corp. for libel, estimating damage to his reputation...
...Among the world's other top-rankers are: London's Leon Goossens (brother of the Cincinnati Symphony's Conductor Eugene Goossens); the Boston Symphony's Fernand Gillet; the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's Bruno Labate...