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...Esterhazys, a job he held for 30 years. Also of particular interest: No. 48 ("Maria Theresa"), which heralds the arrival, in the distance, of the mature symphonist. Of his later and more familiar works, RCA Victor offers a superbly warm performance of No. 93 (the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Guido Cantelli conducting; 6 sides). Recording, on 45 r.p.m.: excellent. London FFRR'S release of No. 101, "The Clock" (L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet conducting; 2 sides, LP), is less warm, more straightforward. Recording: good...
...Toscanini-trained musicians of the NBC Symphony Orchestra blinked, then stared: Was it Frank Sinatra? At first glance, the boyish-looking, new guest conductor was a dead ringer for Frankie: wispy, wire-thin, sallow-cheeked and dark-haired. But when 28-year-old Guido Cantelli stepped to the podium and rapped his baton, the jokes stopped. By the time Guido had driven them through bar-by-bar rehearsals of Hindemith and Haydn without looking at a score-gesturing and singing fa-sol-la-tis to make up for his lack of English-musicians were murmuring about "terrific talent...
...Guido when he arrived in Italy for a visit last spring. He had slipped quietly in on a rehearsal in Milan, where his friend Violinist Nathan Milstein was rehearsing the Brahms Violin Concerto with the La Scala orchestra, and had been so impressed with the work of its Conductor Cantelli that he came back for a second time, then for the concert. Toscanini decided that Guido had been born to conduct...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Guido Cantelli conducts a concert of Haydn and Hindemith...
...Good for Jon" Sirs: Good for Jon Cantelli and his defense of Italians [for their intelligence in running away from a war they dislike and disapprove -TIME, Dec. 23]. It isn't so long ago that most Americans liked men who hated fighting...