Word: conductor
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This week, over Manhattan's station WNBC (Tues. 7:30 p.m., E.D.T.), the nation's lowest-paid disc jockey entered the overcrowded field. White-maned, 63-year-old Leopold Stokowski, for 24 years conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, began a four-week show. Stokowski will play his own recordings of Bach music, commemorating the 200th anniversary of Bach's death, and will accept a $1 bill in payment...
...young musicians found that, as a conductor, aging Pablo Casals had no particular "technique of discipline." Said one: "He cannot enliven or discipline a bored technician. He is a conductor for real musicians. You give as much...
...songs which he finished in 1948, the year before his death at 85 (TIME, Sept. 19). "I would like to make it possible," he wrote to her, "that [the songs] should be at your disposal for a world premiere in the course of a concert with a first-class conductor and orchestra." In London last week Composer Strauss's wish was fulfilled to the letter...
...With Albert Hall packed for the occasion, great-domed German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler stepped to the podium to lead London's Philharmonia Orchestra. Plump and majestic, Soprano Flagstad took her place near his side, solemnly donned spectacles to read the music. What followed was a moving and deliberate farewell from a composer who, in his earlier years, had turned out the rich and masterful scores of Der Rosenkavalier, Death and Transfiguration, Don Quixote...
What listeners heard from Conductor Izler Solomon and the CBS Symphony was honest and surprisingly modest music. As Composer Bergsma himself noted, it was "quite reasonably diatonic," i.e., based on traditional harmony. It also had a quiet, respectful, lyric feeling, expressed in almost Brahmsian lengths of line. It was purposeful and direct. If Symphony No. i fell short of any of its composer's professed aims, it was in its lack of variety, either harmonic or rhythmic. Even so, grinning Composer Bergsma, sitting in the audience with his young wife "Nickie " got a nice, appreciative hand of applause...