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...Davis orchestra in the early Bar Harbor days, says she hated him, married him after three years of it. For the Du Pont-Roosevelt wedding, at which Mr. Davis played, Mrs. D. wrote a piece called You Are the Reason for My Love Song. A sister-in-law of Conductor Pierre Monteux, she had a serious composition, The Last Knight, performed by the NBC Symphony, with M. Monteux conducting...
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 ("Pa-thétique") (All American Youth Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Columbia; 12 sides; $6.50). Conductor Stokowski makes Tchaikovsky's well-recorded heaves, sighs and tears sound like super de luxe movie music...
...Conductor Mitropoulos is a pious Orthodox Catholic who always wears a crucifix and a medal of the Virgin, almost followed his family's bent toward the monastery. Composer and pianist, he was trained in Greece and Germany, built the orchestra of the Athens Conservatory, made his first U. S. splash in Boston. He looks somewhat like a figure from a can vas by another great Greek, Domenico Theotocopuli (called El Greco in Spain, where he lived). The Mitropoulitan way of playing music is a bit El Grecoesque: lean, angular, edgy, sometimes distorted...
...only did he dispense with the score on the platform: at rehearsals he could refer his men to a numbered section of the score, sight unseen. Says he, simply: "I learn the music." Last week rumors flew that the Phil harmonic might offer Conductor Mitro poulos a permanent job. To get him, the orchestra management would have to buy off Barbirolli, whose contract at a comparatively modest salary has two years to run. Minneapolis, which turns out the biggest weekly symphonic audience in the U. S. - as many as 5,000 people in enormous Northrop Auditorium - pays Mitro poulos...
...cities and their symphony orchestras [which] are frequently too remote socially from their community." Composer Harris wrote his symphony last winter, had part of it performed and broadcast at an Eastman festival in Rochester last spring. Cleveland got first crack at the whole work because Artur Rodzinski, conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, is a friend of Roy Harris. A symphony in title only, the long work is a five-move ment setting of U. S. songs, with two dance-tune interludes. The songs: When Johnny Comes Marching Home; Oh, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie; The Dying Cowboy...