Word: bruno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iturbi, Igor Stravinsky, Georg Szell, Arnold Schönberg were glad of the chance. Erich Wolfgang Korngold, highbrow-turned-movie-composer, showed up with only 16? in his pocket. Nine members of the orchestra were assessed 1? each to make up his 25?. Favorite conductor so far has been Bruno Walter, who exclaimed at the end of his concert: "This is paradise." Positions in the orchestra are rotated, so that every horn has a chance to be first horn, every fiddler a shot at being concertmaster. In a typical session, one or two full-length works, preferably-modern, are gone...
Smetana: Vltava ("The Moldau") (Bruno Walter conducting the New York Philharmonic-Symphony; Columbia; 3 sides). Scenic ride, well recorded, on the Czech river...
Conductors are as important as jockeys, and Bruno Walter, a successful guest conductor last season, led a sweetly stirring performance of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. Another great opera man. Sir Thomas Beecham, will be in the saddle for Carmen, Le Coq d'Or and Bach's Phoebus and Pan. The Met had planned to shake up its two Italian veterans, Gennaro Papi and Ettore Panizza, giving to each some operas that the other had been leading. But just before last week's Traviata, Signor Papi dropped dead of heart disease. Panizza took his place...
...guests: Stokowski, Bruno Walter, Artur Rodzinski, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Sergei Koussevitzky, Walter Damrosch, Fritz Busch, Eugene Goossens...
Schumann: Symphony No. 3 ("Rhenish") in E Flat Major (New York Philharmonic-Symphony conducted by Bruno Walter; Columbia, eight sides). German Exile Walter makes this romantic symphony as light and clear as Rudesheimer Schlossberg...