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...Individualiy by prima donna conductors can be carried too far and our remarks on the Mozart G Minor (as done by Toscanini) are applicable here: Excessive speed does not make for clarity; drive on the conductor's part can and does obscure many of the details. Of the two readings, Toscanini or Furtwaengler, we unhesitatingly recommend the latter, for, while its vigorously dramatic and vital treatment may shatter your ideas on the interpretation of the symphony (the conventional Weingartner rendition, nevertheless, Furtwaengler's musical integrity stands unquestioned, aside from the fact that the recording is superior...
...Duet and Liebestod from Tristan, Brünnhilde's Immolation from Götterdämmerung (San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Edwin McArthur conducting, with Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior; Victor: ten sides). Souvenir of a great operatic team which may soon be heard no more (TIME, Jan. 22). Conductor McArthur's shyly reticent accompaniment keeps it from being as good as it should...
Both Victor and Toscanini should be ashamed of themselves for ruining an opportunity such as this. The former had best look to its standard of recording, and the latter to an investigation of who writes the music, the composer or the conductor...
Rehearsals are already under way, and the opera is taking shape under the direction of Conductor Malcolm H. Holmes, Dramatic Director Robert A. Brooks '40, and Miss Charlotte MacEwan of Wellesley, the Choreographer...
...girls from Radcliffe who will join in the opera are under the direction of Miss Elizabeth Hutchison of Radcliffe, assistant Conductor of the girls chorus. They are 21 in number...