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Fifteen years ago, following a meteoric success in continental Europe, he arrived in the U.S., where he was introduced with the New York Philharmonic under Sir Thomas Beecham. So fast and furious was Horowitz' performance of the Tchaikovsky Concerto that peppery Sir Thomas refused to keep up with it. For whole measures, Tchaikovsky's music sounded like...
Like an oasis in the desert came the April 5 cover of TIME. After a great procession of military men and political leaders, it was a tremendous relief to see the Mephistophelean face of Orchestra Leader Beecham on that issue. Let's have more like it. The artists have been too neglected in this war time. . . . Let the poet, the dramatist, the composer and the painter join the parade across the front of TIME again...
...taking umbrage at his peculiar expressions of amity. He told the Philharmonic Orchestra Association of Southern California that America's primary cultural asset was the English language-which was gradually being destroyed through misuse. Said an Association member next day: "The insults to our nation publicly made [by Beecham] . . . were un-British, unAmerican, uncalled for and should bar him from our auditoriums...
...ensuing fan mail, he admitted, "was so various in invective that it might have been written by Elizabethan poets. . . . I am a peaceful and harmless man. . . . I simply can't understand why people are always going for me. It's positively a pathological attitude. People see Beecham and at once their backs...
...present Lady Beecham, whom Sir Thomas married after his Idaho divorce, is a blue-eyed, 34-year-old British pianist named Betty Humby who has often appeared on her husband's programs. Current apple of Sir Thomas' eye is her eleven-year-old son by a previous marriage. He plays the clarinet in the Deerfield (Mass.) Academy band...