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Goldmark: "Rustic Wedding" Symphony (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia: 10 sides). No symphonic architect. Composer Goldmark built pretty trellises and arbors. Conductor Barlow spruces up the most ambitious...
...Andrews Clark Jr. lost $250,000 a year on it. When the cornucopia stopped flowing at Clark's death five years ago, a group of conservative Los Angeles socialites managed to keep his orchestra alive, but gave it less lavish rations. Proud were they of getting as permanent conductor world-famed Otto Klemperer. While the plump palms of Los Angeles' highty-tighty delighted to honor the Los Angeles Orchestra, neighbors from Hollywood's film colony stayed away in droves, and nobody was sorry...
Then the picture changed. This fall Conductor Klemperer was rushed off to Boston to be operated on for a brain tumor. By this month his health had become so precarious that he had to give up his conducting plans for the season. With the health of their orchestra also precarious, the board of directors decided on a desperate blood transfusion: an injection of high-spending cultural barbarians among their own withering shirt fronts. Last week, while the starchier board members still creaked and grumbled, the Los Angeles Philharmonic announced: 1) a move from Los Angeles' solemn, downtown Philharmonic Auditorium...
Album of American Music for Orchestra (Eastman-Rochester Symphony, Howard Hanson conducting; Victor: 8 sides). Conductor Hanson's anthology (mostly of familiar items by Chadwick, MacDowell, et al.) is chiefly remarkable for the first recording of a shimmering little impressionistic piece, Night Soliloquy by a 26-year-old Michigan composer named Kent Wheeler Kennan...
Since then the Chicago Woman's Symphony has had one guest conductor after another, with results that critics found scarcely an improvement on the Sundstrom era. But last week it sported a brand-new conductor, hoped this one was for keeps. This time the conductor was a man: pint-sized, cadaverous Izler Solomon (TIME, March 27). Mr. Solomon started by firing six women, cowed five more into resigning, added 15 new players. Chicago wits nicknamed the orchestra "Solomon and his Wives," "87 Girls and a Man." But when Solomon led his black-dressed musical harem through Mendelssohn...