Word: conductor
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Bonanza. In Vienna, with $4,000 inherited from an uncle, Landon arranged for the recording of four rarely heard Haydn symphonies by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, led by young U.S. Conductor Jonathan Sternberg. Then he hit a bonanza; he persuaded a friend to invest $13,000 in the Haydn Society, assuring him it would "pyramid faster than Florida real estate." With his bonanza money, he hired a photographer and a musicologist, sent them up & down Austria, Germany and Hungary collecting and microfilming Haydn manuscripts. He also recorded the Nelson Mass, which sold 5,000 copies, put the society...
Died. Max Reiter, 45, Jewish refugee, from Italian Fascism, who in 1938 left a successful career as conductor on the Continent (Berlin, Munich, Rome, Milan), came to the U.S. with only $40, within five years shaped the San Antonio Symphony into a major orchestra; of a heart attack; in San Antonio...
...Zener, and David S. Feingold, clarinets; Charles S. Lipson, Murray K. Rosenthal, and Richard A. Bohannon, trumpets; Richard C. Hermann and Peter D. Hardy, trombones; Frederick L. Hall, tuba; Stewart G. Levine, French horn; Theodore H. Johnson, baritone horn; Quincy A. Sanders, saxaphone; Peter Strauss, piccolo; and Cacciotti, conductor...
Russell Stanger, the orchestra's new conductor, obviously deserved much of the credit for the players' inspiration. He produced some fine sounds from the group; his interpretations of the Haydn and back were sound, while the Shostakovitch was often exciting...
Stanger is well trained to take over the Job. He has studied with Eleanor to Carafe the and has been assistant conductor to Leonard Bernstein for two years at Tangle wood. Last year, Stanger assisted Burgin in conducting the New England Symphony Orchestra...