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When the flop-haired little man popped out of the wings and strode briskly to the podium, the sedate English audience in Manchester's green-walled Albert Hall jumped to its feet, cheering like a football crowd. As he bowed time & again, Conductor John Barbirolli's black mane fell over his eyes and he had to push it back. After five minutes of solid ovation, he turned, with tears on his cheeks, to lead Manchester's Hallé Orchestra through the night's concert...
...John Barbirolli was the most popular man in Manchester last week, and with reason. A few hours before concert time he had turned down $40,000 a year and one of the most coveted conductorships in Britain-the BBC Symphony-to stick with the Halle at half the salary...
Ankle Low. Barbirolli's terms for staying were unselfish. He asked and got a raise for his men (none for himself), an increase in the size of his orchestra (to 100 pieces) and a fund for at least one foreign tour a year. The Halle Concert Society was glad to pay. It was a bargain to keep the man who in five years hac hammered and planed their famed but disintegrated 91-year-old orchestra back into top shape-and who, incidentally, hac salvaged his own career in the doing...
Biggest visiting celebrity of the season so far was tall, blonde Helene Thimig Reinhardt, who traveled from New York to play her old role of Faith in the English morality play Everyman, originally staged in Salzburg by her late, great husband, Max Reinhardt. Yet to appear: Conductor John Barbirolli, Yehudi Menuhin and Grace Moore. Conspicuously absent was Austria's No. 1 conductor, arrogant 37-year-old Herbert von Karajan, a Salzburg boy who made good in Germany under the sponsorship of Hermann Göring. The Allied Council in Vienna turned him down at the last minute...
They finally got to Brussels and put on a concert at the famed Palais des Beaux-Arts-whereupon Oboist Evelyn Rothwell (in private life Mrs. John Barbirolli) fell off the Beaux-Arts' modernistic stage and injured her arm so badly she couldn't play. Undaunted, Conductor Barbirolli led his forces into the teeth of the German advance, twice a day played items like Wagner's Rienzi Overture and Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik for cheering servicemen at Eindhoven and Ghent, and squeezed in a few extra concerts for Belgian civilians. At week...