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...Millenium Ensemble-with director Theodore Antoniou and guest-conductor Eric Rombach performs John Heiss's Songs of Nature, Fred Lerdahl's Fantasy Etudes and Ingolf Dahl's Duettino Concertante. At the Tsai Performance Center at 685 Commonwealth Ave. in Boston. Call 353-3345. Tuesday...
...music festival, enabling George Conway to palm himself off on the foreign orchestra as the great man himself, and to scourge the players through many a furious rehearsal. It ends happily ever after with Uncle George not only promoted to Assistant Secretary to the Ministry but also appointed official "guest-conductor" to Europe's finest orchestra...
Died. Paul Felix Weingartner, 78, famed German musical conductor; in Winterthur, Switzerland. No longer widely known in the U.S., he was nonetheless one of the world's greatest. He was conductor of the Berlin Symphony (before World War I), the Vienna Opera from 1908 to 1927, guest-conductor of the New York Philharmonic and New York Symphony. He taught at the famed Conservatory in Basle, directed the Vienna State Opera in 1935 and 1936. Later he chose exile in preference to Anschluss...
...players lost their jobs because they had lost their hair. The smoothest pate in the orchestra belongs to Alfred Friese, oldtime tympanist of the New York Philharmonic, whose pupil, young black-mopped Saul Goodman, now stands behind the kettledrums in Toscanini's orchestra.) Each concert has a different guest-conductor. Some of this season's guests: Gershwin. Reiner, Rodzinski, Stokowski. Stock, Harty...
...Frenzied yawps of indignation followed on this side of the water. Defenders of American Artistic Ideals lacked no words, minced no words. A typical statement was that made by Herr Fritz Reiner, guest-conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra...