Word: cellistic
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...only permanent symphony. So many first-desk musicians are playing in it that critics expect the Palestine Symphony to rank soon among the first four orchestras in the world. Impresario Huberman is proud to have engaged for the forthcoming season such guest artists as Violinist Adolf Busch and Cellist Pablo Casals. After Toscanini takes the orchestra to Jerusalem, Haifa, Cairo and Alexandria this season, Issay Dobrowen, former conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, Hans Wilhelm Steinberg, onetime director of the Frankfort Opera, and Michael Taube, former leader of famed German ensembles, will replace him on Jewry's proudest podium...
Jean Bedetti, first cellist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is to give a recital in Jordan Hall on Tuesday evening. His program includes a Sonata Arpeggione in A minor by Schubert which is being played here for the first time...
...cellist playing obscurely in the Metropolitan pit, Victor Herbert began his U. S. career. He had left Ireland in his youth, studied in Germany, taken a job with the Stuttgart Opera when in 1886 Walter Damrosch visited there, offered a Metropolitan contract to Therese Forster, a comely young singer who was to become Mrs. Victor Herbert. Damrosch offered Herbert $60 per week for the sake of signing up the singer he wanted. Mrs. Herbert's heyday was brief. She retired to bear children, grew plumper & plumper, never quite mastered the English language...
Four women are aboard the Philadelphia Special: Harpists Edna Phillips and Marjorie Tyre; Cellist Elsa Hilger who popped into the news four months ago when she discovered her stolen Guarnerius in the arms of an innocent deskmate who had borrowed it from a dealer who had unwittingly bought it from a thief (TIME, Dec. 23). No musician but a competent masseuse is pretty, blonde Miss Rondum, taken along by Stokowski to give him daily rubs...
...young conductor seems typically British. He was born in Bloomsbury, loves Bloomsbury, lives in Bloomsbury in a four-room flat. He relishes Yorkshire ham and cricket matches. But, like the Barbirollis before him, he took naturally to a musical career. At 11 he made a concert debut as a cellist. Later he toured through Europe with a string quartet. He started conducting in 1925, served for a time with the London Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, the Covent Garden Opera. As regular conductor of the Leeds Symphony and the Scottish Orchestra of Glasgow, he has had such success that both organizations...