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...Conductor. In Syracuse, N. Y., a man stole a bus, drove along collecting fares for three hours, then disappeared-with the fares...
Last fortnight Maestro Stokowski had done some criticizing himself. In firm, rayon tones he announced his resignation as conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Said he, with reference to his critics: "I have always tried to give Philadelphia beauty through music because I believe in beauty and truth. If the atmosphere surrounding my conducting is to be untruth and ugliness, I cannot give of my best." It appeared that next season, for the first time in 29 years, Stokowski really would not wave pale hands over the orchestra which he had made one of the two or three plushiest-sounding...
...recent years, Stokowski has been Philadelphia's conductor more in name than in fact. While he gadded, the orchestra's responsibilities fell upon the dependable shoulders of Hungarian-born Eugene Ormandy. Now Ormandy has a five-year contract as full conductor. One cause of the final break between Stokowski and the orchestra's directors: competition between the Maestro's Columbia recordings with his All American Youth Orchestra and his Victor recordings with the Philadelphians (on which Stokowski and the orchestra association share royalties). Stokowski said simply that he would be busy with a new youth orchestra...
...contest, one of the oldest in the University, was founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston in memory of his uncle, who established the Boylston professorship. The man who holds this chair is traditionally the conductor of the contest. Robert S. Hillyer 17 is in charge of this year's affair...
Bandmaster of the 369th for more than four years has been Russell Wooding, onetime Broadway arranger and conductor, onetime bandmaster for the New York Giants football team. Bandmaster Wooding works his men hard, says: "All of us realize that we have a great tradition to uphold." That tradition was begun in World War I, when the 369th was the crack 15th New York Infantry and its bandmaster was the late James Reese Europe...