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Those Philharmonic subscribers who considered Guest Conductor Igor Stravinsky too bloodless and ascetic (TIME, Jan. 25) last week found his successor, Georges Enesco, more to their taste. They clapped warmly when the burly, bigheaded Rumanian walked awkwardly onto the stage of Carnegie Hall to lead the Philharmonic for the first time in his life. Stoop-shouldered and serious, Georges Enesco showed in his conducting neither the agility of Barbirolli nor the machine regularity of Stravinsky. But nobody could doubt Enesco's knowledge of the orchestra, his anxious and humble devotion to the scores...
Except for the Gluck overture with which he began, Enesco played music that Manhattan seldom hears. Throughout he had plenty of opportunity to indulge his fondness for big climaxes and shattering brasses. But even these could not keep people from realizing that the Dukas Symphony in C Major was hackneyed and too long. Rumanian Mihail Jora's Marche Juive, played for the first time in the U. S., sounded trifling...
Like Stravinsky, Georges Enesco is better known as a composer. Last week's audience was warmest in praise of his Symphony in E Flat Major, found it packed with' thematic material, glowing with unfamiliar melodies. For those who knew about Enesco's boyhood in the Rumanian countryside, this was not surprising...
...Georges Enesco's people were farmers...
...Enesco was 12 when he continued his studies in composition and harmony at the Paris Conservatory. He had teachers like Massenet and Faure. At 17 he took a brilliant first prize in violin and began to tour...