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...case in point is TIME'S Music Department, which week by week is chronicling for you a revolution in the folkways of America. And perhaps our cover story on Symphonist Sir Thomas Beecham makes this a good week to tell you about...
...finest orchestral conductors alive, a sovereign interpreter of music old & new, is no solemn priest of tone but the ebullient son of Britain's most celebrated laxative manufacturer. Goateed, 63-year-old Sir Thomas Beecham is also an enthusiastic newlywed, a considerable amateur of the Elizabethan drama (especially Beaumont & Fletcher), an adamant and voluble Tory (though in this role he is really more of a Character than a Colonel Blimp), and a transparent apostle...
...GREAT MEDICINE Precocious advertising helped . . . good time. But all these facets of the Beecham personality combined, distracting though they are, cannot hide the fact that in their midst stands a musical artist of the first water...
Last week Sir Thomas was helping Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera make a smashing success in Chicago. Said the Chicago Tribune's discriminating Claudia Cassidy of Sir Thomas' Faust: "Its most persuasive points were Beecham's energetic pursuit of the beauty and brimstone of Gounod's imperishable score. . . . Sometimes the result was so delightful you wished the stars would stop singing." Throughout the winter Sir Thomas has been one of the chief ornaments of the Met's conductorially brilliant season on its home grounds. Between times he has galvanized the young, awkward Brooklyn Symphony into...
Claiming that records made by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under his direction were imperfect, goateed British Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham sued Columbia Recording Corp. for libel, estimating damage to his reputation...