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...nervousness and novelty. It was the first performance of the Philharmonic's 95th season. It was the first time in ten years that the season patrons could not look forward to a single concert under their beloved Conductor Arturo Toscanini. It was the first time that John Barbirolli, 36, had ever faced an American audience, and this audience that he was tackling at his debut was the most exacting, the most critical in the country. To many in that audience Toscanini and the Philharmonic had seemed inseparable; to nearly all, this young Barbirolli was unknown. They clapped him politely...
...return of towering Otto Klemperer. San Francisco stages its opera season first, but by midwinter the rejuvenated symphony will be playing again under the beneficent command of Pierre Monteux. The New York Philharmonic, bereft of Arturo Toscanini, has postponed its season's opening until November when John Barbirolli, an obscure young Englishman so far as the U. S. is concerned, will take over the first ten weeks. Barbirolli's appointment has been frowned upon by many a Philharmonic subscriber who may soon be convinced that he is either the season's dead flop or its dark horse...
...surprise appointment was that of Britain's John Barbirolli, 36, an unknown so far as most Philharmonic subscribers were concerned. Conductor Barbirolli was born of a French mother and an Italian father who played the violin under Toscanini at La Scala. Except for his music the young conductor seems typically British. He was born in Bloomsbury, loves Bloomsbury, lives in Bloomsbury in a four-room flat. He relishes Yorkshire ham and cricket matches. But, like the Barbirollis before him, he took naturally to a musical career. At 11 he made a concert debut as a cellist. Later he toured...
Tchaikovsky's Concerto in D by Violinist Mischa Elman and the London Symphony Orchestra under John Barbirolli (Victor, $10) - Elman's mellifluous tone marks this performance of the Concerto originally dedicated to Elman's teacher, the late great Leopold Auer, who rejected it because of its technical difficulties...