Word: conductors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Choir Conductor. Dayton, Ohio, as everyone knows, hears the first clang of more newborn cash registers than any other city in the world. Many persons have still to be informed, however, that Dayton hears also the best choral music sung today in the U.S., for which credit is due John Finley Williamson, a conductor who knew what he wanted, and Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott, a wealthy Daytonian who believed...
...What Conductor Williamson wanted was better church music. He wanted to recreate an interest in the art of hymnology. Music, he said, was once the child of the church, where Bach, Haydn, Beethoven and the rest had their training. It should be brought back and made worshipful, the professional tang taken out. It should be devotion itself and delivered always with the greatest artistry...
...Pierian Sodality will give a concert at the Union tomorrow evening at 7.15 o'clock. Nicholas Sloninsky will be the conductor...
Last week, in Manhattan, the most discussed musical arrival was Clemens Krauss of Vienna and Frankfort, one of the Continent's outstanding maestros, on his way to be guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. For luggage Conductor Krauss carried the latest novelty from Vienna, a specially constructed suitcase of aluminum and steel to hold music. Customs officers, prodding through his possessions, caused him annoyance by discovering some 250 dutiable cigars. Friends soothed him with the assurance that among Philadelphia's concertgoers is many a person able, alert and eager to send a distinguished new guest conductor some good...
Last week, a group of stragglers arrived late for a Toscanini concert in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan. They clattered down the aisle, banged down their seats, threw back their coats. They may have thought themselves unnoticed but the little man on the conductor's dais had been disturbed. He wheeled on them, crossed his arms in a Napoleonic attitude, stared them up and down and said, quite distinctly, "You are late!" Philadelphia audiences have been frequently rebuked by Conductor Leopold Stokowski; Manhattan, never before...