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...Impresario Bing had cannily saved his Sunday punch for the final week. It was the dramatic reunion of Bruno Walter and his old Vienna Philharmonic, parted since the Anschluss of 1938. One afternoon the 84 Viennese, in shabby lounge suits, trooped into Usher Hall for rehearsal. When Walter entered from the wings, they clapped happily and beat their bows on their instruments. Said the boss: "It is good that we meet again. It is high time, for I am getting a very old man [he was 71 last Monday]. . . . Now, gentlemen, we begin. Achtung!" It was like the old days...
These tricks were profitable; the Gershwin concert drew 20,000, as against 6,400 for an all-Brahms concert conducted by the New York Philharmonic's Bruno Walter. Bowl Manager Karl Wecker (whose salary is scaled to Bowl profits) explained: "If I have to play Gershwin to carry Brahms...
...Eternity. A new committee was formed for the administration of the remaining funds. It was called "The Clock Committee." It discovered that there was only one man who could fix the clock at a reasonable price-a Fiumicinian who worked wonders with all machinery, by the name of Giordano Bruno Rocchi. But he was a violent anticlerical who would not do any work for the "priest-ridden Clock Committee." So the leftists formed their own "Citizens' Committee" for repairing the clock, and one dark stormy night, they spirited the clock's works to Rocchi's tiny hole...
Conductor Bruno Walter picked her to sing Leonore in an English version of Fidelia in 1945. Wrote the New York Times's Senior Music Pundit Olin Downes: "[She] showed that she had the voice, the high intelligence and the dramatic sincerity required for Leonore's great role. . . . The voice is of a warm color and stamina and resourcefulness throughout its range...
...Metropolitan's Richard Bonelli (voice), England's Griller Quartet (chamber music) and Composer Ernest Bloch (music craftsmanship) are on the faculty. Sponsors include Pierre Monteux, Artur Rodzinski, Bruno Walter, Yehudi Menuhin, Artur Rubinstein, Laurence Tibbett, Helen Traubel, Lotte Lehmann and Joseph Szigeti. Hollywooders Darryl Zanuck, Ronald Colman, Alec Templeton and Jeanette MacDonald chipped in scholarships...