Word: monteux
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Sergei Koussevitzky is due 100% credit for the Boston Symphony's present excellence. Seven years ago it was in sorry state. Frenchmen Henri Rabaud and Pierre Monteux, successors to the maligned Karl Muck,? had proved incapable. The directors were appraising all the availables in Europe when they came upon a Russian exiled in Paris. They traced his history: at 12 he had been chef d'orchestre in the theatre of his native town (Tver in North Russia), composed whatever music was required for the plays and conducted the entr'actes. At 14 he went to Moscow to study, chose...
Famed French musicians are few-the U. S. public knows the names of Conductor Pierre Monteux, Pianist Alfred Cortot and a few others. Of the 97 principals in the Metropolitan Opera Company, in recent years there has been but one French singer, Basso Léon Rothier. Last week Basso Rothier was joined by a compatriot-Tenor Antonin Trantoul, a native of Toulouse and War veteran whose singing has won high praise in Paris, Italy, South America. He sang Faust in the Metropolitan's 200th performance of the Gounod opera. He was weak-voiced, uneven and unduly doddering...