Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musical melodrama without throwing away climaxes. The result: when the real climax came in the last-act murder scene, it was overwhelming. Carmen was the same story; with the pace he gave Bizet's fast-moving tragedy, it seemed to move swiftly without being rushed. By last week Perlea had cemented his reputation as an operatic triple threat by conducting a superbly lyric Traviata...
Owlish, talented little Dmitri Shostakovich, who intimately knows that a Russian composer must sing in tune with the Communist Party's harmonic scheme, last week gave faithful praise to the blower of the U.S.S.R.'s biggest pitch pipe: Joseph Stalin himself...
...major U.S. symphony orchestras, both without permanent conductors since stormy Artur Rodzinski left them, finally picked replacements last week...
This season the same team minus Walter has worked it back to first-class shape. Last week came a decision. Leopold Stokowski, 67, informed the directors he would not be available next season; the board voted unanimously to make 53-year-old, egg-bald Dimitri Mitropoulos the Philharmonic's regular conductor...
After New York, Rodzinski had gone to Chicago. He had lasted one year. Last week, after eleven guest conductors in two seasons, the Chicago Symphony Association voted its baton to a relative newcomer to the U.S.: mop-haired Czech Conductor Rafael Kubelik, 35, who made a hit as a guest conductor last fall (TIME...