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Alexander Hertz, conductor, composer, and critic will speak at a meeting of the Symphony Club tonight at 8 o'clock in the Music Building. The subject of his talk will be "The Music of Gliere and Borodin...
...traditional Harvard night at the Pops this Sunday will appear the Glee Club under G. Wallace Woodworth '24, and Malcolm Holmes '28, director of the Harvard, Radcliffe, and Wellesley Orchestras, who will act as guest conductor...
...Philharmonic's centennial year. It crowns, for Toscanini, a sporadic season of conducting. A year ago, when the maestro ended his 1940-41 season with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, he would not decide to continue for another year. NBC made other plans, secured Leopold Stokowski as its star conductor. Other orchestras pressed the conductor for guest appearances. He finally succumbed. Since November, he has conducted eight Philadelphia Orchestra concerts, five NBC Symphony broadcasts for the Treasury Department (for which he took no pay), has also done more recording for Victor than in any previous year...
...program called it a concerto, but the soloist was a soprano. For 24 minutes, off & on, Margot Rebeil warbled wordlessly, while the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under plump Eugene Goossens wove strands of tone around her. Conductor Goossens was giving his audience not only a new work, but a new wrinkle in composition: a full-fledged concerto for voice and orchestra...
...human voice's limited range and flexibility, Haussermann decided to lay most stress on variety of color. In one of the four movements the voice is used in a hushed, introspective mezzo voce; in another, in light coloratura vein. There are runs, trills, even a cadenza. Commented Conductor Goossens...