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...brilliant musical propaganda stunt was pulled off last week by Polish-born Conductor Artur Rodzinski and his Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. From the works of Hitler's favorite composer, Wagner, Dr. Rodzinski exhumed a stirring overture, Rule, Britannia (based on the tune of the famed British patriotic song of the same name), dedicated to the British by Wagner in 1837, and gave it the musical works. By way of introducing it to his audience, Dr. Rodzinski said he doubted that the Nazis remembered the existence of their idol's opus...
Died. Alfred Hertz. 69, black-bearded, bald conductor of German opera at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera from 1902 to 1915, director of the San Francisco Symphony for the following 15 years; in San Francisco. At the Met he conducted the first U.S. performances of Richard Strauss's Salome and Rosenkavalier...
This year's Glee Club, by its conductor's admission, is one of the best in many years, and promises to give a performance that will shake the Symphony Hall statutes off their pedestals. The concert will take place Sunday afternoon April 26 and tickets are now on sale at the box office...
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 (London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Felix Weingartner; Columbia; 10 sides). Brahms's soaring architecture traced with unerring mastery by the famed conductor, who is now the first to have recorded all the Beethoven and Brahms symphonies...
Kern: Show Boat: Scenario for Orchestra (Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; 6 sides). The Show Boat tunes, some of the bravest in U.S. operetta, were dressed up last year by their composer in symphonic finery at the persuasion of Conductor Rodzinski. The resulting potpourri is lush, places Jerome Kern no whit nearer Beethoven as a symphonist, but Rodzinski's silky performance makes even more apparent Kern's Schubertian gift for melody...