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...musical genius, I am forced to regard him as a menace to American music. In preference to making some honest effort to discover first-rate American music, he plays the puerilities of tenth-rate Italian composers. He has been glorified until the public thinks no other symphonic conductor is worth listening...
...Humby organized concerts in British cathedrals (free, easy to advertise). She also helped keep evacuated children out of mischief by holding morning concerts in cinemas. Last autumn, with her ten-year-old son Jeremy, she went to the U.S., where she plans to remain for the duration, believing (like Conductor Beecham) that she can help England without being there...
Harold S. Shapero '41 of Newton has won the annual Prix de Rome in Music, it was announced yesterday by Howard Barlow, conductor of the Columbia Symphony Orchestra. The work, "A Nine-Minute Overture," was played during Barlow's regular Sunday afternoon radio program. Instead of the customary privilege of studying at the American Academy in Rome, Shapero will receive $1,000 outright...
Paul Lemay, conductor of the Duluth Symphony, heard a choir sing Sister Martina's The Highwayman, advised her to orchestrate it and enter it in the annual Minnesota composers' competition of the State Federation of Music Clubs. Sister Martina did, won handily. Last week Conductor Lemay, the Symphony and a 250-voice chorus gave The Highwayman its first full performance...
...John Barbirolli (the Philharmonic's contracted conductor), Boston's Serge Koussevitzky, Cincinnati's Eugene Goossens, Minneapolis' Dimitri Mitropoulos, German Exiles Bruno Walter and Fritz Busch, Cleveland's Artur Rodzinski, Philadelphia's Stokowski, Manhattan's Walter Damrosch...