Word: conductorship
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...classics, Stokowski long ago jumped the fence of the conventional musical pasture and wandered far afield. He rewrote symphonic oomph into Bach fugues, started adding weird electrical instruments to his orchestra, played the Communist Internationale at a Philadelphia symphony concert. When, four years ago, Stokowski retired from the chief conductorship of the Philadelphia Orchestra and went to Hollywood to make movies, Philadelphia conservatives sighed with relief, but agreed sadly that the Orchestra would never be quite the same without...
...revolution of 1917 put a stop to all this. Zealous Bolsheviks liquidated Capitalist Koussevitzky's self-endowed orchestra and publishing house, offered him instead the post of Russia's musical head man. He declined, though he accepted for a time the conductorship of Petrograd's State Orchestra, where his dictatorial instincts were continually curbed by bureaucratic rules & regulations. Once officers of the GPU caught him attempting to escape to Estonia. When he did finally succeed in getting a passport to leave the country, he abandoned virtually all of his money and personal property to the Soviet Government...
Egbert W. Fischer 1G and John S. Morgan '39 also earned places in the finals by their conductorship of Haydn's Second Symphony in D Major and the second movement of the same composer's Surprise...
...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...