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...Pope, the 32 members of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's board of directors last week filed out of their board room in Manhattan's Steinway Hall and announced the new holder of the most prestigious post in U.S. music. The post-musical director and conductor of the New York Philharmonic-will be filled by a Dalmatian-born Pole, Artur Rodzinski, bushy-haired, gangling present conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra...
...five years, under the good-natured, timid leadership of Conductor Barbirolli, it acted like a willful nag without a rider. When the directors supplemented Conductor Barbirolli with a string of famous guest conductors, the orchestra became more balky and independent than ever. The visiting conductors began to refer to its undisciplined and arrogant members as "the Dead End Kids." Meanwhile, one-man orchestras like Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony and Frederick Stock's Chicago Symphony continued to take top honors. This year even the Philharmonic's board got around to thinking that the Philharmonic probably needed...
...didn't hear him till 1907, in Symphony Hall, Boston, when Rosenthal, of the stocky, powerful figure, eagle-beaked, massive-jawed, with black mane and Kaiser mustache, played the Liszt E-flat concerto, and Karl Muck leered over him on the conductor's stand, snapping the chords from the orchestra as a Mephistopheles would crack a whip over his minions, and the two played into each other's hands with a deviltry beyond words. Hah! The intrepidity, the dash, the saber and spur of it, the wild exhilaration, the reckless mastery of the whole business...
Marie Wilkins never got her second Audition of the Air. As soon as she arrived in Manhattan, with a small traveling bag and a determined expression, she went to see Metropolitan Conductor Wilfred Pelletier about a second audition. Conductor Pelletier asked her if she knew the score of Lakmé, She did not-and she had heard the opera only once in her life. But she thought that she could learn it in two weeks...
...Conductor Pelletier gave Marie Wilkins a week. She practiced herself hoarse and trotted down to the Metropolitan to get some pointers listening to Lily Pons rehearse the score. But she found that Soprano Pons was laid up with laryngitis. Soprano Wilkins agreed to rehearse in her place...