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...Walter Damrosch...
...Walter Damrosch (Fri. 2 p. m. NBC-Blue), in 60 minutes of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Wagner. Grainger, Tchaikowsky and others, returns for his eleventh successive season as patriarch of classical music educators...
Eight Etudes for Symphony Orchestra (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS) respectively dedicated by Composer Robert Russell Bennett to Composer-Conductor Walter Damrosch, Novelist-Essayist Aldous Huxley, Actor-Playwright Noel Coward, Carl Hubbell, all Dictators, Human Faith, Painter Eugene Speicher, the Ladies. They are given their first public performance by Howard Barlow's orchestra...
Threatened last week with "meet and proper" disciplinary action by his union (Local 802 of the Associated Musicians of Greater New York) was Dr. Walter Damrosch, venerable symphony conductor. Reason: He had charged that the union has created unemployment by trying to maintain high wages, that there are only 2,000 good musicians among its 15,000 members...
...import seven well-known conductors for guest appearances. The drive was a success. To Pittsburgh went successively: 1) gaunt, funereal Otto Klemperer, conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; 2) Cincinnati's Eugene Goossens; 3) Fritz Reiner; 4) Mexico's Carlos Chavez; 4) NBC's Walter Damrosch; 6) Michel Gusikoff, former concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra; and 7) Rumania's Georges Enesco. To Klemperer went the job of rebuilding the new orchestra. He heard auditions, reshuffled the old personnel, sweated his musicians into top-notch form, followed with a series of performances that brought stolid Pittsburgh audiences...