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...clatter of applause rose last week in St. Louis' Kiel Auditorium Opera House as one of the city's most distinguished citizens appeared on the stage. Debonair, white-haired Vladimir Golschmann, 62, bowed; this Parisian son of Russian parents was obviously very much at home. Then he turned, and whisked his baton over the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. On the program: Pianist Lukas Foss, playing his own Concerto No. 2. Conductor Golschmann has led his orchestra for 25 years-longer than the tenure of any other U.S. conductor now working...
...Violin Concerto, in fine performances by Jascha Heifetz and London's Philharmonia Orchestra under Walter Susskind (Victor), and Zino Francescatti and the New York PhilhaononicSymphony under Dimitri Mitropoulos (Columbia); Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. I (Nathan Milstein and the St. Louis Symphony conducted by Vladimir Golschmann; Capitol); Mendelssohn's Elijah (soloists, choirs and the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Josef Krips; London...
...Lewisohn Stadium Concerts, Manhattan: Joseph Szigeti, Dorothy Kirsten, Claudio Arrau, Nathan Milstein, guest soloists; Alexander Smallens, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Pierre Monteux, Vladimir Golschmann conducting...
...quickly made a hit with his musicians. Slightly slack after four years of guest conductors, they needed work and polishing; Golschmann gave them both without scraping their tender feelings. Says one musician: "Golschmann gets good discipline without blowing...
...Race." Golschmann has toured his orchestra over a good deal of the U.S., but has bided his time about taking on Manhattan and Manhattan critics. "There is no race," he kept saying. "We'll go to New York when I think we can give a good concert." Last week, midway on the orchestra's 70th anniversary tour, Golschmann and the St. Louis played Manhattan's Carnegie Hall for the first time. They proved they could give as good a concert as any music lover would want to hear...