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Higginson hired his first conductor, Sir George Henschel, when the latter conducted his own Concert Overture for the Harvard Musical Association concert. He then rounded up sixty of the best orchestra musicians he could find, hired himself a hall, and set to work. The conductor and musicians were trouble enough, but it was the hall that caused the real headache. It seems that in renting it out to the Orchestra, the owners had neglected to inform the hall's former occupants of the change. Since these former occupants were prize-fighters who used the balconies for workouts, and were...
These early tribulations have been almost forgotten, and in their place has arisen a great symphony orchestra and a great conductor. Dr. Serge Koussevitsky--the doctorate was awarded him by Brown University--has become a dominant figure in Harvard's musical life. His concerts with the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society are always popular and memorable events. With them, he has made a number of recordings. And the effect that he and his pupils--including Piston and Sloninsky--have had on the collective musical mind of Harvard has been immeasurable...
...four hours various jazz musicians, drifting in from the hotspots, had been showing a roomful of bigwig musicians and assorted guests that jazz is serious. At the moment a hot guitarist, academically introduced as a "demonstrator of social and protest blues," was beginning to take effect on listeners like Conductor Wilfred Pelletier of the Metropolitan Opera. Soon Benny Goodman arrived, said "Hi" to the assembled thinkers and blew into his clarinet. In the early dawn he was still going strong. So were Mouth-Organist Larry Adler, Pianist Alec Templeton, and the dogged panel of classicists. By that time the classicists...
Some musicians attribute Stokowski's musical deliquescence to Walt Disney's enormously successful Fantasia, in which the conductor was flatteringly spotlighted. Next month Stokowski leaves Manhattan for Hollywood, to make more Disney pictures...
...fluent, pulsing performance of Mozart's comedy of rococo love, the last of his operas to be recorded complete. Così fan tutte, like the recorded Don Giovanni and Marriage of Figaro, was expertly given before the war at John Christie's Glyndebourne Manor, Sussex, England. Conductor Busch and the soprano star of Così fan tutte, Ina Souez, figured in Manhattan performances of the opera last month...