Word: conductorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relaxation he travels-anywhere and everywhere. He enjoys and has often played jazz. Boston prophets foresee his elevation to a regular conductorship. He planned the Esplanade Concerts for two years, typing innumerable letters, making endless calls. Now that the concerts are a reality, he finds himself-dark, stocky, energetic-something of a public idol. Boston ladies applaud himself as well as his music. When the wind blows across the Charles they draw each other's attention to "Arthur's" locks, gaily ruffled by the breeze...
...provide the city with opera the equal of Chicago's and Manhattan's. Emily Mlynarski, con ductor of the Warsaw Philharmonic and Opera, was named as director of both the Curtis Institute Orchestra and the Phila delphia Grand Opera, replacing Artur Rodzinski, who has accepted the conductorship of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The personnel of the opera company will include well-known singers as well as stu dents selected from the vocal and operatic departments of the institute. Except for the Rochester Opera which, before evolving into the American Opera Co., was a partial outlet for students...
...year ago Wilhelm Furtwangler,* famed German conductor, came tor the U. S. to serve a four weeks' guest conductorship with the New York Philharmonic. He did his work well, he was a success, a sensational success, some said. On the basis of his success he was engaged for this season as a regular conductor for a ten-week term. Last week he arrived, began rehearsals with an orchestra still quivering with the thrill of Toscanini's administration, gave his first concert in Carnegie Hall...
...merely in- crease their elation. Beneath this surface of madness, as the critic of The New York Times pointed out last Sunday, there must be certain subtleties of method. Mr. Stransky as conductor seems to give the clue. This musician recently re-signed or was "forced" out of the conductorship of the Philharmonic -both explanations were given. The new movement seems at bottom a process of providing him with an orchestra. Mr. Stransky is a persuasive personality and has a devoted following among the highly placed. There may be angels in this new heaven. And it may be that...
...Jonson's "Volpone" beginning on March third. The Conventional little bird has informed us that it is likely to be an unusually good performance. Most popular of all, however, will be the Cambridge Amateur Operatic Company's "Mikado" which starts on Monday the twenty-sixth under the conductorship of Mr. Boris Ord, who is a musician of no mean repute not only in Cambridge...