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...your May 23 article on Milton Katims, Seattle Symphony Orchestra conductor: the enthusiasm of our educated, dedicated, 4,400 strong season ticket holders is the most important part of our symphony picture. One doesn't even hear a cough when our symphony plays its regular series. Truth, however, compels me to add that a few of the less musically initiated have perhaps been transported into a euphoric state by a gift of Katims' Koncert Kough Drops-available in the lobby of our concert hall before each performance. J. HANS LEHMANN, M.D. Member Seattle Symphony Board Seattle...
...evocative in its titles and equally appealing to the imagination if given half a chance. Manhattan's Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage is providing that chance in a series of 20 recordings, giving voice to some 25 little-known U.S. composers. As interpreted by Conductor Karl Krueger (formerly of the Detroit Symphony), they all emerge as competent musicians, and several give glimpses of sizable talent. Among the more interesting unsung melodists...
Arthur Fiedler, conductor, Boston Pops Orchestra D.F.A...
...made her grand opera debut in the NBC-TV production of Tosca ("I was the first black Tosca that big audience had seen"), later made her European grand opera debut in Aïda at the Vienna Staatsoper, guided by Conductor Herbert von Karajan. Since then Leontyne has had an uninterrupted string of European successes, particularly in Italy. After La Scala, Soprano Price has one more giant step ahead of her in the U.S.: next season she will sing yet another Verdian role-Leonora in Il Trovatore-in her debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera...
...Symphony under Toscanini for ii years, and studied the Toscanini technique. In rehearsal he is still given to shouting Arturo-isms: "Dream with me!" and "Make it barbaric!" The Dustman. When Katims arrived in Seattle in 1954, the city was still trying to forget its last permanent conductor, France's Manuel Rosenthal, who was for bidden re-entry to the U.S. in 1951 for perjuring himself to the effect that the woman traveling with him was his wife...