Word: defauw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken by another little white-haired maestro, this time one unfamiliar to U. S. audiences. The new maestro, who had just defied bombs and mines on the S. S. Vulcama, for his chance to conduct the NBCers, was Belgium's No. i Conductor Désiré Defauw (pronounced Defoe). Driving the orchestra at top speed, with its cut-out open, through a broadcast of light French and Belgian pieces, Maestro Defauw left a few loose bolts & nuts by the wayside. But as he zoomed across the finish line the audience in buff-walled Studio 8-H broke into...
Bach's Suite No. 3 in D by Désiré Defauw and the Orchestra of the Brussels Royal Conservatory (Columbia, $6)-A vigorous, forthright reading of Bach's most popular orchestral suite. A sombre Corelli saraband is played by Enrique Fernandez Arbós and the Madrid Symphony as filler for the last record...