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Conditions for judging the Moscow players were not ideal: at the insistence of Impresario Sol Hurok, the Russians were offering a straight Tchaikovsky repertory during the first two weeks of their stay, with no other classics and no modern works. (Muttered Permanent Conductor Konstantin Ivanov, who wanted to play more Beethoven: "I suppose King Hurok knows best.") Under the 52-year-old Ivanov and 45-year-old Kiril Kondrashin. one of Russia's most active guest conductors, the 106-man Moscow symphony displayed some solid virtues and some marked weaknesses. The Russians attacked their Tchaikovsky less fiercely than many...
...Pierian Sodality of 1808 is the oldest continuous musical organization in the United States. Michael Senturia '58, is the conductor...
...three minutes later, the young man boarded No. 8 bus, a cream and blue double-decker carrying at least 50 people. He was about 5 ft. 9 in., was in his early twenties, and was wearing a brown, hip-length duffel coat. Dazed, he said nothing when the conductor asked him his destination, silently handed over sixpence and climbed to the upper deck. At one point he was seen talking to two other men. Somewhere in the slummy Ladyswood district, all three got off. Bus No. 8 went on its way-even though the man's coat...
...under his baton. Now, in the centennial year of his birth, the musical world is taking a fresh look at the last of the great Austrian symphonists. A spate of anniversary performances was inaugurated last week by the New York Philharmonic, playing Mahler's Fifth Symphony under Guest Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos...
Behind the Curtain. By all reports, he was at least as distinguished a conductor as he was a composer. Born into a non-musical Jewish family (his father owned a distillery) in the town of Kalischt in Bohemia, Gustav Mahler left home to study at the Vienna Conservatory at the age of 15. At 37, after years of composing and a succession of provincial conducting posts in Austria and Germany he became head of the Vienna Opera, and from that time on (1897), he was one of the most powerful men of music in Europe. He renovated the opera company...