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Died. Desire Defauw, 74, Belgian symphony conductor, brought to the U.S. by Arturo Toscanini in 1939, subsequently musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1943-47) and of the Gary (Ind.) Symphony Orchestra from 1955 until his retirement in 1958; of pneumonia; in Gary...
...earns it in readership. During her successful campaign to drive Conductor Désiré Defauw from command of Chicago's Symphony Orchestra, thousands of Trib readers who had never read a music story read Cassidy to learn how she would scratch Defauw next. At the height of the battle, the Trib received 200 complaining letters in one week from Defauw supporters, and Miss Cassidy offered to resign. Cried Bertie McCormick, "Two hundred letters to the music department? You keep right on writing...
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Erica Morini, violin, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Désiré Defauw conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Perhaps the best recorded version, yet of Tchaikovsky's familiar work, played by the leading U.S. woman violinist. Recording: good...
Franck: Psyché & Le Chasseur Maudit (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Désiré Defauw conducting; Victor, 8 sides). In Psyché, Franck characteristically overlaid a classic pagan myth with some of his own emotional religiosity. Its companion tone poem, Le Chasseur, based on Teutonic myth, does not come off so well. Performance: excellent...
Prokofiev: Scythian Suite (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Desire Defauw conducting; Victor, 6 sides), Piano Sonata No. 7 (Vladimir Horowitz; Victor, 4 sides). Two good and noisy pieces by Russia's greatest contemporary. The earlier Scythian Suite (composed for a Diaghilev ballet in 1914) comes out better than the recent (1942) Sonata. Both are recorded for the first time in the U.S. Performance: good...