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...excellent concert, but not a single admission ticket was sold. None of the 100-odd musicians got paid a cent, not even the conductor. On the contrary, every one of them had to pay 25?. The Rehearsal Symphony, which meets twice a month in a Los Angeles auditorium, is the only U.S. orchestra of professional caliber which plays unpaid, almost unheard-in short, strictly...
...Conductors are as important as jockeys, and Bruno Walter, a successful guest conductor last season, led a sweetly stirring performance of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. Another great opera man. Sir Thomas Beecham, will be in the saddle for Carmen, Le Coq d'Or and Bach's Phoebus and Pan. The Met had planned to shake up its two Italian veterans, Gennaro Papi and Ettore Panizza, giving to each some operas that the other had been leading. But just before last week's Traviata, Signor Papi dropped dead of heart disease. Panizza took his place...
Died. Gennaro Papi, 54, conductor of Italian repertoire for the Metropolitan Opera; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. He joined the Metropolitan in 1913 as assistant to Toscanini, coached stars of opera's "golden age"-Caruso, Scotti, Geraldine Farrar, Frances Alda. He was made conductor in 1916, served in the post for ten years, returned to it ten years later from conducting the Chicago and Ravinia Operas. He died a few hours before he was to have conducted Traviata, his first opera of this season...
...Because silver is the best electrical conductor and the rearming U.S. will be short some 770,000 tons of copper next year, the 100,000 tons of Treasury bullion might well be largely drawn into wire and installed in new defense plants this winter to save some 75,000 tons of copper. So suggested Robert E. McConnell at a convention of chemical engineers. Copper is priced at 12? a lb., silver around $10 a Ib. depending on when it was bought; but defense plants are well guarded and their wires full of deadly high voltages 24 hours a day. After...
...reputation outside of the College, it is enough to quote Serge Koussevitsky, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who stated after a concert last year: "At times this society has done work which surpasses any other performance in the world...