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Those of the 4,000 who went expecting a conventional musicianly concept of the Catholic ritual heard not that but more. They heard the soul of a great creator stomping through divine harmonies, shunting manufactured theories, demanding passage through forms and conventions to an Infinite. They heard Conductor Artur Bodanzky, inspired, fathom it all to the very depths with a fiery baton, get magnificent results from the Friends of Music Chorus...
...Nanny Larsen-Todsen, recovering from an illness, sang the difficlut music of Brünnhilde, creditably. Michael Bohmen, big bass also billed as "indisposed," was sinister, impressive, magnificent; Friedrich Schorr, superb as Gunther; Rudolph Laubenthal, bountifully bewigged, an uninspired Siegfried. Critics reveled in the music, lauded its interpreter, Conductor Artur Bodansky; bewailed the fact that carelessness and a disregard for Wagner's instructions were allowed to spoil many of the effects; prayed that the Metropolitan orchestra, for several weeks now noticeably ragged, would get a long profitable vacation...
...came "fresh from European successes." But so do many of his colleagues, according to their press notices. This particular Sunday afternoon was a very busy one in Manhattan music halls. There were orchestral concerts and recitals by artists with bigger names than Gieseking, and the Friends of Music under Artur Bodanzky were doing interesting things down the street in the Town Hall. No, there was little time for the critics to spend in Aeolian Hall...
Klemperer's reputation is as striking as his stature (nearly 7 ft.) and appearance. Artur Bodanzky, conductor of the Metropolitan Opera Co., who knew him as a young man, declares, "He has never been known to approach a musical composition from a conventional or customary angle." Born in 1885 (the year Walter Damrosch first conducted the New York Symphony), he spent his early years in the operatic field. He was still in his early 20's when Gustav Mahler sought and secured his services as conductor in the German Opera House at Prague. Strasburg, Cologne and Berlin knew...
...Artur Bodanzky, conducting, called into service the windswept vigor which he acquired last summer at the Lido, Venice, where his lean torso was seen on the beach, wrapped in a gaudy bathrobe. His wife was with him there. Also his son Karl. Also his daughter Elizabeth. He had friends to soothe him, drinks to amuse him. "I ate, drank, smoked and talked too much," said he. Yet spiritual hunger rather than oafish gluttony spoke in the fierceness with which he whipped up the clever and sometimes moving music which Mr. Honegger has written about King David...