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...York. New York's Metropolitan Opera closed a month ago but one night last week the Opera House was alive with white ties and decolletage, turned out to watch the American Ballet dance three premieres in one evening. Igor Stravinsky, who wrote all three, was on hand to conduct. His Apollon Misagete had never been danced in New York. Le Baiser de la Fee had never been danced in the U. S. The Card Party had never been danced...
Vronsky & Babin play more than properly. Their frighteningly fast passages in Rachmaninoff never sound muddled. Babin's arrangement of the Polovetzkian Dances from Borodin's Prince Igor is brilliant and vital...
...group which could not view the return of Toscanini with unmixed emotions was the orchestra he made great. Without him, the Philharmonic-Symphony has managed to maintain its U. S. supremacy under the vigorous baton of young John Barbirolli and assorted guest conductors like Georges Enesco and Igor Stravinsky. With Toscanini back, in command of the first-desk orchestral talent which rich NBC already has and can add to, there will be in the land another competitor for symphonic supremacy, with the continent instead of Carnegie Hall for its auditorium...
Those Philharmonic subscribers who considered Guest Conductor Igor Stravinsky too bloodless and ascetic (TIME, Jan. 25) last week found his successor, Georges Enesco, more to their taste. They clapped warmly when the burly, bigheaded Rumanian walked awkwardly onto the stage of Carnegie Hall to lead the Philharmonic for the first time in his life. Stoop-shouldered and serious, Georges Enesco showed in his conducting neither the agility of Barbirolli nor the machine regularity of Stravinsky. But nobody could doubt Enesco's knowledge of the orchestra, his anxious and humble devotion to the scores...
Dark, well-knit, young Beveridge Webster is a good swimmer, takes pride in his tennis, likes to play poker or bridge with his great good friend Igor Stravinsky. He boasts of the little slam he once made against Sidney Lenz...