Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Bodanzky, the chunky guest conductor engaged Metropolitan stars to sing the title roles. He swelled the orchestra to 73, omitted Siegfried so that Flagstad would have a less arduous schedule, reversed the order of the operas so that Gotterddmmerung could be given on the Saturday it would not conflict with a big football game.* Graciously, he staggered performances so that stars could keep appointments elsewhere. Reiner clashed only once with Stage Director Armando Agnini, over a new $1,800 steam apparatus for Gotterddmmerung to help Valhalla go up realistically in flames & smoke. The conductor barred the steam because...
Still only 47, Reiner has held guest conductorships in Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna, more recently with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic. He led the Cincinnati Symphony through nine distinguished years, heads the Orchestra and Opera Departments of Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. He is considered an expert on Wagner, likes the moderns as well as Bach, snaps crack photographs on his Contax...
...third son of the 32nd U. S. President, Harvard senior; and Ethel du Pont, 20, eldest daughter of retired Powdermaker Eugene du Pont, niece of Powdermakers Lammot, Pierre Samuel and Irenée du Pont; at Owls Nest, Greenville, Del., where Franklin Jr. was a week-end guest. Miss du Pont announced that their June wedding would not be at the White House...
Blond, graceful Leopold Stokowski mounted the stand, back as guest conductor with the Orchestra he left last spring to go to Hollywood (TIME, Oct. 19). Conductor Stokowski took pains to make his first concert of the New York season glitter, made the new symphony wait till last. Devoted to Oriental instruments, he swelled the percussion section with a group of weird brass Oriental gongs, had them bong dolefully through his own transcription of music from Boris Godunov...
...this opposition can be explained by a misunderstanding as to the working of that system, which many felt was just one more check-up in addition to the restrictions of the old rules. The Oxford System prescribes no other restriction than the registration of both the student and his guest before the visit and a corresponding "checking-out" after the visit. The hours when visiting is allowed are limited by University officials...