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...population change, town councilors began to look around for a new attraction. The idea of a music festival came up, and almost before anyone could sound a dissonant note, the deal was on. In 1945 the first ten-day festival was launched. Two years later Conductor Sir John Barbirolli adopted the event as his own. As he has done each year since. Sir John last week bustled into Cheltenham and with Napoleonic gusto took over the festival...
...Vaughan Williams' house in Regent's Park, he played for the old (81) composer, who quickly approved. Catelinet practiced till he knew the concerto inside and out, rehearsed only twice with the orchestra (under Sir John Barbirolli) before the big night...
There were hearty rounds of applause for Tubaman Catelinet, Conductor Barbirolli and Composer Vaughan Williams, who was sitting in the front row. Next day the London Times summed up: "The tone . . . was sufficiently rich and warm to fire any composer's imagination, but [Catelinet] did not suggest that the tuba can do much in the way of varied phrasing or dynamic nuance to repay promotion to a solo status...
Among London's shortages last week was an acute dearth of sopranos able to sing the demanding lead in Verdi's Aïda. At noon on the day of a performance, Covent Garden learned that Soprano Gré Brouwenstijn had a case of laryngitis. By 1:30 Conductor Sir John Barbirolli and the opera management had made a quick canvass of the countryside without flushing an available soprano, finally began calling the Continent...
Arriving at Covent Garden by 5:30, she spent an hour and a half, while her costume was being cut down to size, talking to Conductor Barbirolli and the cast. She was the only one singing in Italian (Covent Garden's performances are traditionally sung in English), but Barbirolli told her not to worry: "I'm going to take good care of you." When she made her entrance her knees were shaking, but "directly I started I knew I was singing well. The only bad moment I had was when Amo-nasro first comes on to the stage. I turned...