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...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 to their feet, yelling & stamping. At the season's close, Klemperer was offered...
...countries long before it was recognized in the United States, the forerunner of the international style, the designer of the Tokyo Hotel, of homes, offices and industrial plants scattered throughout the country is (1 Louis Sullivan, 2 Frank Lloyd Wright, 3 Richard J. Neutra, 4 Grant Wood, 5 Georges Enesco...
This week the third Annual MacDowell Radio Festival boomed far beyond U. S. borders. Manhattan's New York Philharmonic-Symphony, under slope-shouldered Georges Enesco, broadcast MacDowell's symphonic poem Lancelot and Elaine over the Columbia network. Other commemorative broadcasts were heard over Columbia, NBC, Don Lee, and Canadian broadcasting systems, as well as 56 independent stations. Additional MacDowell broadcasts were heard from one station each in Ireland, Sweden, England, Australia, Poland. Norway, and from three stations in Germany, where MacDowell spent his most fruitful student years...
Difficult to pigeonhole as a musician, Enesco is equally difficult to pigeonhole in the various jobs at which he works. In spite of an absorbing interest in contemporary modernistic scores, he shines brightest as a conductor of romantic German symphonies. As a composer he cannot be identified with any school. "People have been puzzled and annoyed," said good-natured, courtly Enesco in an interview, ''because they have been unable to catalog and classify me in the usual way. They could not decide exactly what type of music mine was. It was not French, after the manner of Debussy...
Born in Rumania, Enesco studied composition, piano, organ, cello, violin in Vienna, became a violinist in a Viennese Symphony Orchestra. Later he went to Paris, entered the Paris Conservatoire, studied more composition, more violin, composed extensively and had his compositions widely performed. Today, at the age of 56, Enesco is almost as familiar a figure to the Parisians and the Viennese as to the Rumanians, who regard him as their musical patron saint...