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...orchestra's Budapest-born conductor, Frederic Balazs, 35, who was engaged two seasons ago. Conductor Balazs has organized an exchange concert with Phoenix, children's concerts and a new civic chorus. He has already staged two large-scale choral works. Liszt's monumental Christus and Haydn's Creation. Best of all, Balazs sees to it that there is a modern American composition, e.g., Ulysses Kay's Horizons, on every program...
Three year lettermen Sam Yence and Haydn Owens will be at the Eli defense for the last time tonight. Behind them will be sophomore goalie George Scherer...
...Beinum's first concert (of seven) was typical: Haydn's lighthearted Symphony No. 96, Anton Bruckner's somber Symphony No. 7. Each gave the conductor plenty of opportunity to show his capabilities, and his reading of the long, difficult Bruckner work gave the audience some special excitement. Wrote one critic of Van Beinum's style: "Refreshingly free from excessive gesticulations . . . His cues are crisp and clear, his beat firm, and his authority is absolute. His conducting is intensely individual. He knows what he wants, and gets...
Later, Prince Esterhazy offered a ransom for the skull. Rosenbaum solemnly sent a random substitute which was duly buried with Haydn's bones. The prince never paid the promised ransom, but Rosenbaum had the last laugh, confessed the fraud in pale glee on his deathbed. He passed the relic to a friend, with the request that it be placed eventually in the museum of Vienna's ultra-respectable Society of the Friends of Music. After long delays, the skull reached the museum in 1895, where it rests today in a glass case...
...Last week pressure on the Friends of Music by the Austrian Education Ministry apparently succeeded. If the present agreement holds till spring, the skull of the great composer will be reunited with his bones as a ceremonial event on the Esterhazy estate during the 1954 Haydn Festival...