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...Individuality and originality of the Russian composer Rheinhold Gliere were emphasized by Alexander Hertz, distinguished composer, conductor, and critic in a lecture before the Symphony Club last night...
...Montreal concert audience began applauding before the orchestra had quite finished a chorus. Famed Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham whipped around, shouted: "Silence! We don't applaud before the orchestra has finished playing." When the orchestra had properly finished, the audience then responded with a chorus of its own: "Booo...
...Conductor Wallenstein pored over 120 operas, picked what he thought were the most artistic, entertaining, representative. To start the series, he shrewdly selected the best-liked U.S. folk opera: George Gershwin's jazz-flavored saga of Charleston's Catfish Row, Porgy & Bess, now a smash hit in its Manhattan revival. To get the Broadway cast, headed by Anne Brown and Todd Duncan, arrangements had to be made to hold the theater curtain until...
...four pieces exist because of an idea of rotund-faced, baldish Conductor Andre Kostelanetz. As he explains it, "I want people to get the message of what democracy is, what we are fighting for." So first he telephoned Jerome Kern in Beverly Hills. Kern, who has been a Mark Twain enthusiast since boyhood (the first book he ever owned was Huckleberry Finn), jumped at the idea of a Mark Twain portrait. Copland wanted to do Walt Whitman in music, but was persuaded to tackle Lincoln. Virgil Thomson was best suited to his particular assignments. Since 1928 he has been composing...
...short but fairly penetrating essay entitled "The Emotional Essence of Brahms," written by none other than Dr. Koussevitzky, which appeared in the May Atlantic, should be a telling blow on behalf of its author in our current Battle of the Conductors. Besides being, with the exception of Walter's book on Mahler, the sole piece of intelligent prose published by a major American conductor on musical history or theory for the last ten years, it reveals Boston's Bayard as a keen historical analyst with broad-based Van-Wyck-Brooksian sympathies. This may seem like the introduction of strange standards...