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...fallen off since Maestro Arturo Toscanini left the orchestra in 1936. "The Old Man" well earned his $50,000 a year by his hard riding of the Philharmonic, which was then as fast and tautnerved as a fine race horse. Regular conductor now is a lightweight, Anglo-Italian John Barbirolli. For the birthday year, he is being spelled by eight guest conductors.* But eight jockeys are no good for one horse. Once again last week critics marked the orchestra's sloppy form...
...John Barbirolli (the Philharmonic's contracted conductor), Boston's Serge Koussevitzky, Cincinnati's Eugene Goossens, Minneapolis' Dimitri Mitropoulos, German Exiles Bruno Walter and Fritz Busch, Cleveland's Artur Rodzinski, Philadelphia's Stokowski, Manhattan's Walter Damrosch...
Debussy: Rhapsody for Clarinet (Benny Goodman with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, conducted by John Barbirolli; Columbia; 2 sides; $1). Clarinetist Goodman tootles iridescent Debussy with proper subtlety, but the recording is poor...
Dimitri Mitropoulos thus went through the second week of a month's spell as guest conductor of the Philharmonic. This 44-year-old Greek had been summoned from Minneapolis, whose symphony he has conducted for three years, while the Philharmonic's floppy-haired John Barbirolli-a British subject of Italian-French parentage-went westward, guest-conducting on his own. After recent critical blasts at Barbirolli's spiritless stick-waving (TIME, Dec. 9), veiled comparisons and references to Greek v. Italian were inevitable. Almost unanimously the critics handed Conductor Mitropoulos the decision. Thanks to him, the Philharmonic...
...rehearsals he could refer his men to a numbered section of the score, sight unseen. Says he, simply: "I learn the music." Last week rumors flew that the Phil harmonic might offer Conductor Mitro poulos a permanent job. To get him, the orchestra management would have to buy off Barbirolli, whose contract at a comparatively modest salary has two years to run. Minneapolis, which turns out the biggest weekly symphonic audience in the U. S. - as many as 5,000 people in enormous Northrop Auditorium - pays Mitro poulos a big salary as such things go: $25,000 a year...