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Married. John Barbirolli, 39, conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony; and Evelyn Rothwell, 28, top-flight British oboe player; in London. Conductor Barbirolli was divorced last month by Marjorie Parry, British opera singer, for desertion...
Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C Minor ("Tragic") (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting: Victor, 8 sides). First modern recording of a work not frequently played which nonetheless stands up alongside the Schubert Eighth ("Unfinished") and Seventh ("Of Heavenly Lengths") symphonies...
...getting Norwegians, Brazilians, Poles, Rumanians and Swiss to hire the New York Philharmonic-Symphony for a concert or two apiece of their own national tunes. Nobody else was interested. But there were enough Norwegians, Brazilians, Poles, Rumanians and Swiss to make a crowd. Aging Walter Damrosch and youthful John Barbirolli were drafted to conduct a concert apiece in the Fair's blimplike Hall of Music. Only really impressive bit of music up to last week was a special Wagner cycle put on not at the Fair Grounds but at the Metropolitan Opera House, and as the World...
...Last week John Barbirolli, conductor of the New York Philharmonic, who is not generally considered a magician so far as programs are concerned, pulled an exciting Easter rabbit out of his hat. Assisted by the young, well-trained Westminster Choir of Princeton, N. J., the Philharmonic gave Manhattan an earful of Gioachino Antonio Rossini's rare Petite Messe Solennelle (Little Solemn Mass), which is neither little nor solemn. The Mass took almost two hours to perform, was full of the impish but not impious gaiety of Rossini's comic operas (Ceneventola, The Barber of Seville). Rossini...
...very proud of its bumps and bruises. When the top-flight conductor resigns, and a bantamweight takes his place, the orchestra is apt to sulk. In the past few years two of the finest U. S. symphony orchestras have had this letdown: Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony (Toscanini to Barbirolli); the Philadelphia Orchestra (Stokowski to Eugene Ormandy). The Philharmonikers have kept a stiff upper lip, but the Philadelphians, after brooding and glooming for a whole season, last week broke out in a williwaw...