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...Louis Symphony. Founded in 1880, this orchestra is the country's second oldest (after the 140-year-old New York Philharmonic) but is still youthful by virtue of its many young players. Building on the legacy of sober, European conductors like Vladimir Golschmann and Walter Susskind, St. Louis has come into its own as a tightly disciplined ensemble under the impressively gifted American conductor Leonard Slatkin, 38. Like the Chicago Symphony, which it resembles in style and flair, the St. Louis Symphony is at its best in big pieces, but of a more recent vintage: Rachmaninoff's orchestral...
Expertly supported by Conductor Vladimir Golschmann, Cliburn shaped a characteristic performance-simple, water-clear, eloquent in every detail. And it brought an ovation. As the orchestra was packing its instruments, Cliburn reappeared to play an encore-Chopin's A-flat Polonaise. Then another, Rachmaninoff's Etude Tableau. The orchestra left for the night, but the audience stayed on. Cliburn played Albéniz' Eritaña. He walked offstage and came back again, smiling and bowing. At last he stole a look at the piano, walked over to it. put a hand on it and-to another...
During his quarter century, Conductor Golschmann has become a part of St. Louis. His collection of modern French painting has left the imprint of his taste on the city ("There are more than 90 Picassos in San Lewis," he says in his compromise Gallic-American pronunciation, "and I am only talking of the first-rate ones"). His poker playing has contributed much to the liveliness of the game in St. Louis. And his music has opened St. Louis ears to the contemporary world...
...When Golschmann went to St. Louis with a three-year contract in 1931 (since renewed, year after year, on a one-year basis), Beethoven, Brahms and Wagner were St. Louis' idea of symphonic music. Golschmann has tried to program at least one 20th-century work every concert. Says he: "The Beethoven fans will have all the best recordings of him anyway, and the young people in the balcony really like contemporary music...
...Golschmann's sound conducting of the whole lot has put the St. Louis Symphony in the first ten U.S. orchestras, with a fine musical reputation, a healthy budget of $375,000, and about 4.000 subscribers. Last week Golschmann was proudly showing visitors his most recent acquisition-not a canvas, but a 6-in.-by-8-in. silver plaque on which was the autograph of each of the 24 musicians who have been with him during his 25 St. Louis years. Says he proudly: "The number of us who have been together so long shows a great stability...