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Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 (Minneapolis Symphony, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia: 10 sides). In his first album with the Minneapolitans, Conductor Mitropoulos (TIME, April 24) proves himself tops, in batonistic oomph, gives this classic one of its finest recordings to date...
Married. Composer Igor Stravinsky, 57, guest conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (whose first wife died in 1939); and Vera de Bossett Sudeikine, onetime dancer with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballet Russe; in Bedford, Mass...
...father was Charles David Hocker, a onetime bank clerk who, at 19, got ex cited about the Philadelphia Orchestra's Youth Concerts, became their manager a year later. For musical director of his opera, Hocker got a onetime piano prodigy, Sylvan Levin, who had been assistant conductor to the great, emotionally profiled Stokowski. Hocker & Levin resolved to keep their opera youthful, avoid stars like the plague, angels like leprosy. They cherished an idea which the Metropolitan has persuaded many people to believe a terrible heresy: that opera can be sung in English. (Throughout Europe, of course, it is sung...
...above average in looks. Retranslated, by Chorus Master Vernon Hammond, was the gay, sometimes bawdy Viennese libretto (1874), which details the ballroom deceptions practiced upon a banker (Tenor Edward Nyborg, tailor's son) by his wife (Selma Amansky, wife of the Philadelphia Orchestra's trumpeter and associate conductor, Saul Caston) and his maidservant (Frances Greer, church singer). Typical couplet, sung by the banker...
...stormy night from Boone, 25 miles away. He was going to college at Wake Forest, N. C. At Lenoir, young Dougherty cloppered on to a train, the first he ever did see. Finding the second-class car full, he made himself comfortable in first class. When the conductor tried to put him back in second class, the sharp-witted hillbilly pointed to a sign forbidding passengers to change cars while the train was in motion. He rode first-class all the way to Raleigh...