Word: borowski
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With the Chicago Symphony, Conductor Victor de Sabata bowled over an ecstatic opening-night audience - and the critics - just as he had in Pittsburgh last year (TIME, Nov. 22). Said the Sun-Times's Felix Borowski: "By all odds . . . the most fiery of any of the conductors who have appeared here in recent years...
...Tribune: "Her Juliet is breathtakingly beautiful to the eye and dulcet to the ear ... an exquisite performance within her vocal limitations, and considering the way she looks, not many are going to quibble about a few notes here and there." Said the Sun's learned Felix Borowski: "The singer has the small, almost the adolescent voice, which gave her vocalism the girlish timbre at least, which some other Juliets of operatic history-most of them fair, fat and forty-generally have lacked...
...Goossens fanfares are now being played by the NBC Orchestra in six weekly broadcasts of Music at War.* They are Morton Gould's Fanfare for Freedom; Henry Cowell's Fanfare for the Forces of Our Latin-American Allies; Paul Creston's Fanfare for Paratroopers; Felix Borowski's Fanfare for American Soldiers; Leo Sowerby's Fanfare for Airmen; Goossens' Fanfare for the Merchant Marine...
This change fixed up Claudia Cassidy and the Chicago Tribune fine, but left the rest of the Chicago press in bad shape musically. The Sun replaced Claudia with aging (70), venerable Felix Borowski, who has written eminently sound but eminently dull notes for the Chicago Symphony programs for years. The Chicago Daily News, on a policy of penny-wisdom, has been having its syrupy art critic, C. J. Bulliet, triple in brass: he writes not only music but movies and the theater. The Times has a stockbroker, R. J. Pollack, who writes music notes in his spare time (which...