Word: ewen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Worcester--g., Ostberg; r.f., Tom Carlson; l.f., Nelson; r.h., Lundquist; c.h., W. Ferrie; l.h., Ewen, Reed; r.o., J. Ferrie, Tog Carlson; r.i., Anderson; c., Olson; l.i., Berness; l.o., Larson, Johnson...
...SUBJECT of the men who conduct and their orchestras is both intriguing and dangerous. The fascinations surrounding a Toscanini or a Koussevitzky are well known; but there is always the fear that attention may be diverted from the music itself to mere personalities. Mr. Ewen has quite evidently endeavored to avoid this pit-fall by mirroring the famous conductors in their musical interpretations rather than through biographical facts alone or individual comparisons. The latter are not neglected, to be sure, for enough of the personal history is given to shed light on the backgrounds of the men themselves...
...Ewen has, however, done a really excellent piece of work in so far as he is concerned with the "man with the baton" and not with the men under him. An excellent chapter on, baton exhibitionism does much to "debunk" some popular fallacies as well as to expose certain audience-minded conductors and their tricks to catch popular support. That Leopold Stokowski's Polish accent is a fake, that one conductor wears a corset at every concert to improve his figure, and that a French conductor changes batons in mid-symphonic stream all makes very entertaining if not instructive reading...
...swaying Vienna more than had his father in his debut eighteen years before. Son is like father in many respects but he never forgets the debt he owes to the self-sacrificing mother who is at once the most human and the most herioc person in the biography. Mr. Ewen presents the contemporary life of the musician very factually; he considers the European tours of both the Strauss' and gives a full account of the triumph achieved by the younger Straus in his American visit to Philadelphia...
...flows along at a regular, unaccented rate over the surface of Vienesse life like the music of the carefree fellows it portrays. Here biography and character go hand in hand without serious thought or effect. The book is another biography of a minor figure in musical history; Mr. Ewen cannot be expected to create a master-piece for he lacks original material, the Strauss' were not men of musical stature, the events in their lives, with a few momentary triumphs are not the material upon which one can successfully lose a serious biography...