Word: beecham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probably the best, giving regular weekly concerts and, during winter and summer seasons, nightly promenade concerts in a 10,000 seat monstrosity called the Royal Albert Hall. The London Symphony, under Malcolm Sargent, also performs once a week at the Albert; while the London Philharmonic since its fight with Beecham has been struggling along with guest conductors of no particular merit. Beecham and his new child, the Royal Philharmonic, have thus far been preoccupied in touring Europe and the so-called provinces...
...diamond jubilee was a jubilee indeed (in a restrained, Fabian way). Sir Thomas Beecham, who quit the Fabians because they slighted the arts, let bygones be bygones and conducted the overture to Die Meistersinger and the Fantasia from Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet. As the music died away, the blue curtains parted. After a slight (inevitable) delay, the large balding head of Quintus Fabius Maximus' disciple Harold Laski popped through the white backdrop. Laski, peering over the big red carnation in his buttonhole, advanced to the rostrum followed by Prime Minister Attlee, Lord President of the Council Herbert...
Haydn: Symphony No. 97 in C (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 6 sides). Waspish Sir Thomas and his orchestra-men race over the hurdles like steeplechasers. Performance: good...
...Thomas Beecham, a good if not great conductor, is a great instigator of orchestras. This week he conducted his sixth. His ready reason for the new venture: "There is no existing British orchestra of a high enough standard to maintain my reputation...
...Thomas Beecham, explosively opinionated conductor of the London Philharmonic, exploded again, this time not with a bang but a phfft. In May, recently home from a U.S. tour, he had called Hollywood "a universal disaster compared to which Hitler, Himmler and Mussolini were trivial." Now he qualified his damnation, decided that it was "the last word in triviality and morbidity...