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...sedate Los Angeles Philharmonic met competition last week-and did not much like it. The upstart who provided the competition was a hawk-eyed, gloomy-looking U.S. composer-conductor, Werner Janssen, who, well in advance of the Philharmonic's opening, led his 48 musicians through their first concert of the season...
This autumn the Philharmonic raided the Janssen Symphony, captured its first cellist and two of its Heifetzes. A program annotator and a lady sponsor, each connected with both orchestras, were told to make their choice. Conductor Janssen, sole backer of his orchestra, seemed unperturbed. His audience last week was near capacity (1,290). He had four more concerts scheduled (and four for children), with two newsworthy world premieres up his sleeve-new works by Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky...
...past the orchestra has had Walter Piston and G. Wallace Woodworth '24 as conductors. This marks the tenth year that Malcolm H. Holmes '28, conductor of the Radcliffe and Wellesley Orchestra, has conducted the orchestra...
Boris Goldovsky, of Cleveland, noted pianist, conductor, and lecturer in the field of music, will deliver two free, public lectures on "The Riddle of Musical Tempo" in the Music Building at Harvard, under the auspices of the Department of Music, Wednesday, November 5, and Friday, November 7, at 8:15 o'clock...
...recent years he has been recognized as a distinguished solo performer and acclaimed as one of the finest of present ensemble players. At present he is artistic director and conductor of the Cleveland Opera Theatre, the Canton Civic Opera Association, and the Akron Opera Guild. Recently he achieved national prominence as musical director of the opera department in the Berkshire Music Center, the Summer Festival School operated by the Boston Symphony Orchestra...