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Shock-haired, Polish-American Artur Rodzinski, conducting the Cleveland Orchestra, last week had his packjammed audience humming with him. Everybody knew the music - from Jerome Kern's classic musicomedy, Show Boat. Conductor Rodzinski, who rates the Show Boat music "true" and "great" U.S. song, last summer invited Composer Kern to give it the symphonic works. The result is called Scenario for Orchestra...
Hissing for pianissimos like a music-loving gander, the goateed, salt-&-peppery conductor waved the orchestra into Delius' placid The Walk to the Paradise Garden. Suddenly Sir Thomas Beecham heard a sound that was not in the score...
...Seattle Symphony and the audience were much impressed. They were also impressed by the fact that the rich, gouty, opinionated, convivial conductor is one of the world's half-dozen best, and by his uninhibited performance: his hisses and shouted "Hos" (for loud passages), his spectacular wind-ups, his devotion to the reeling & writhing & fainting-in-coils method of conducting...
From Glyndebourne, too, came the New Opera's conductor of last week-hulking, moon-faced German Fritz Busch. This week the New Opera revives Verdi's Macbeth, seldom heard in the U.S. since 1850. Other revivals: Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame, whose lush melodies and story of a gambler's fate have pleased European but not U.S. audiences, and La Vie Parisienne -Offenbach's satire on the gaslit vulgarities of France's Second Empire...
...Chicago and Manhattan runs this outfit raised high hopes, but its policies did not suit its backer, Lucia Chase, herself a rich widow, an ambitious dancer. She turned the works over to Hurok, who put in two of his glamor girls (Irina Baronova, Alicia Markova), a new director, conductor and choreographers, all trained in the Russian tradition. When the Ballet Theatre opens in Manhattan next month, its fine U.S. ballet, Billy the Kid, will be missing. Eugene Loring, who designed and danced in Billy, has left the Ballet Theatre. So has its beauteous Texas ballerina, Nana Gollner (now with...