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Nineteen years ago. when Vladimir Golschmann first picked up the baton of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, he hardly seemed the man St. Louisans would choose for a permanent conductor. He was Parisian to his tapering fingertips; St. Louis was used to a rich German accent in its music. In Paris, Golschmann had been a champion of the upstart modernists known as the French Six.* hardly a recommendation for a post in a city devoted to Mozart, Wagner and Brahms...
...somehow Conductor Golschmann and St. Louis got along fine. Now that Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony have parted company after 25 years, Golschmann's 19 years in St. Louis make him the most permanent conductor...
...Trouble. From the beginning, Golschmann had met St. Louis halfway: he kept right on championing new music but he also worked hard to increase his command of the classics St. Louis loved...
...Louis Ministerial Alliance sent St. Louis Symphony Conductor Vladimir Golschmann an indignant letter after discovering that he had posed as a Calvert "man of distinction." Said the Alliance: "We are amazed and deeply disappointed that you have seen fit to sell your reputation for . . . advertisement of a product so destructive to ... the morals of American youth...
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 In B Flat (William Kapell, pianist, with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Golschmann conducting; Victor, 7 sides). A ragged, unsure playing of the least interesting of Beethoven's concertos. Recording: good...