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Died. Thomas Whitaker Trenchard, 78, onetime New Jersey Supreme Court Justice; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Trenton, N.J. A hater of capital punishment, he nevertheless sentenced Bruno Richard Hauptmann to the electric chair for the Lindbergh kidnapping...
Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Charles L. Wagner Production, with Hilde Reggiani, Bruno Landi, Carlos Ramirez, Lorenzo Alvary, John Gurney and other artists, conducted by Giuseppe Bamboschek; Victor; 16 sides). This album is a condensed version (excerpts pieced together to make up a half-length score) sung by a second-string cast (virtually the same company which gave 65 Barbers on tour in two autumn seasons). But the excerpts are expertly chosen, skillfully welded; the singing is good; the performance brightly paced; the recording excellent. Net effect: highly satisfactory...
...appeared this year (Walter, Rodzinski, Mitropoulos, Barbirolli) and a new one, Fritz Reiner of the Pittsburgh Symphony. They also invited Toscanini. Last week, the morning after the second Beethoven concert, came good news. The maestro's son, Walter Toscanini, walked into the Philharmonic office, told Associate Manager Bruno Zirato that his father had decided to accept. He will direct the Philharmonic's first two weeks next fall...
...ridden many interpretative storms from the "Fate-knocking-on-the-door" theorists' down to the present-day "Victory symphony" campaign (based on the rhythm of the first four notes), and will probably survive many more. The recent Columbia recording of the Fifth is the most satisfactory to date, Bruno Walter and the Vienna Philharmonic giving it a more intelligent and broadly conceived reading than that of the present Toscanini recording wherein the Maestro's excessive zeal transformed the first movement into a severe case of the jitters...
Trained in Vienna, the maestro worked under both Bruno Walter and the great Toscanini, before being recommended to the Metropolitan in 1938. After a short period of adjustment, Leinsdorf emerged as a leading man in the company's staff, his versatility being complemented by his understanding and genius for Wagner...