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Distraught, Conductor Klemperer went to Rye, N.Y. one weekend last March, asked for a room in a private sanatorium. Next morning he left, and the sanatorium director. Dr. Daniel J. Kelly, notified police, who issued a nine-State alarm describing Conductor Klemperer as "dangerous and insane," bearing a cane which he "likes to use on policemen." Next day the conductor was picked up in Morristown, N.J. by police who grabbed first the cane, then him. Jailed for 26 hours, he was released when his wife flew East from California. A psychiatrist examined Conductor Klemperer, pronounced him sane but "nervous, temperamental...
...last of three weeks of rehearsals. He had held auditions for several hundred players, had chosen some women and some Philharmonic men, among others, to play under him. He dug deep into his life savings to pay their salaries and the rental of Carnegie Hall for a night. Conductor Klemperer's concert nearly filled the hall with people, and did fill it with satisfactory sounds of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Hindemith. In a not entirely successful attempt to gain brilliance of string tone, Conductor Klemperer had his fiddlers and violists on their feet throughout the concert. As definitely...
...Protestant minister. Since amateur voices may get out of kilter, two or three singers alternate in principal roles. Of the three chosen for last week's Carmen one was Jewish: Eleanor Kahn, who has sung with the San Francisco Opera. Monsignor Bosetti, not only conductor but stage manager and vocal coach as well, drives his casts as hard as any Toscanini, and commands as much respect. When he gives a bawling-out, the customary response is a meek: "Thank you, father...
...Conductor Brown, now 34, glares professionally at 85 musicians at three rehearsals a week, half a dozen concerts a season. Half the orchestra is professional, and unionized, about one-third of it feminine (including Hine Brown's pretty, violin-playing wife). The players average $10 a concert, get nothing for rehearsals, and the union looks the other way. One reason: Biago Casciano, first horn and librarian of the orchestra, is president of the union local. He is also a barber. When Pianist Marcus Gordon arrived in El Paso to play with the symphony, he dropped into the barbershop...
...from Fort Bliss. An Indian janitor, Chief Guadalupe Serna, a dead ringer for the brave on the buffalo nickel, plays the bull fiddle. At one time the orchestra's schedule had to be accommodated to the schedule of the Southern Pacific Railroad, because the clarinetist was a Pullman conductor. He was an absent-minded clarinetist. When the orchestra played Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, in which the clarinet roops a rooster call, he missed his cue. After the closing chord, the Pullman conductor realized his omission, leaped to his feet, played the rooster call, sat down amid...