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Symphony musicians who think they are underpaid should "take over the conduct of Philharmonic orchestras," recommended peppery Sir Thomas Beecham, 63-year-old British symphony conductor who last fortnight married 35-year-old British Pianist Betty Humby. The wealthy laxative heir (Beecham's Pills) told a Manhattan lecture audience that music's future depended on the bounty of the rich. Warning of possible state control over the music world, he forecast that ultimately "an enlightened government will declare that it cannot support such a luxury...
Sibelius: 7th Symphony (N.Y. Philharmonic-Symphony, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia; 6 sides). Between this and last month's 7th (by Vladimir Golschmann and the St. Louis Symphony, for Victor), Sibelius fans will find it hard to choose. Beecham's has slightly more vitality. Golschmann's version is better recorded...
...Toscanini, who for a sufficient fee might have been lured away from his job with the NBC Orchestra; 2) Serge Koussevitzky, who until recently (TIME, Dec. 7) was growing extremely restless in Boston over his union trouble with A. F. of M. Boss James Caesar Petrillo; 3) Sir Thomas Beecham, who has not had a steady assignment in years; 4) Bruno Walter...
...Conductors Koussevitzky, Beecham and Walter were all in their 60s, and Conductor Toscanini was 75. The directors decided on a younger man, hesitated over the name of Dimitri Mitropoulos, glabrous Greek conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony, and finally gave the job to the less brilliant, much tougher, 49-year-old Rodzinski...
Neat, round, goateed, vaguely bomb-shaped Sir Thomas Beecham plummeted into Brooklyn, announced: "I am not prepared to transform your community overnight into a center of art and enlightenment. However, if there is anything I can do. . . ." But the British maestro whipped the year-old Brooklyn Symphony into a little demonstration of Mozart and Beethoven that stole the musical show from the neighboring New York Philharmonic under Artur Rodzinski. "I prefer the smaller orchestras," sniffed Sir Thomas, "because they're better behaved. I find they're not possessed of this overweening self-satisfaction...