Word: iturbi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most symphonic conductors limit their public activity to conducting. It has been hinted that some are not good enough musicians to do anything else. A few, like the late Ossip Gabrilowitsch and the contemporary Jose Iturbi, have been even more famed as instrumental soloists than as orchestral maestros. Still fewer can, like Germany's Richard Strauss, combine the abilities of a brilliant conductor with those of an eminent composer. Burly, slope-shouldered Rumanian Georges Enesco, who replaced John Barbirolli last week as guest conductor of New York's Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, is probably the only famous musical figure...
...brought up to pianism by a San Franciscan who scraped a living as violinist for Hearst's radio station KYA, saw talent in his tot at two. Peter Paul learned to play on an old oaken pianola, has been huddled under the tutorial wing of Virtuoso José Iturbi, who has said of him: "He is extraordinary -Santa Maria...
...series, will sing Home on the Range, a song from Apple Blossoms, Largo al Factotum from The Barber of Seville, as they were written. But next week Kostelanetz will excise large chunks from the Naila Waltz of Delibes, the Caprice Espagnol of Rimsky-Korsakov, and Pianist José Iturbi will whip through the finale of a Mozart sonata in 3 min. He will also play the piano part of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, minus only 4 min. of its 16-min. length...
While radio listeners all over the U. S. were switched to an emergency organ recital, Iturbi explained the interruption backstage. "There is good American music," he cried, "but all this I-love-you stuff is just trash. It is far below 'the dignity of the orchestra to play such cheap, rotten music. See, I cannot permit such stuff on a broadcast ... I have been put in a spot. I refuse to go on with the program unless the songs are cut out." Harassed Dell officials finally coddled Iturbi into going on with the program, putting the rest...
...Next day Iturbi was downright contrite when he was jumped upon by "trash" composers, their friends and Edwin Claude Mills of the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, the latter suggesting that his potent organization might forbid Iturbi to play its copyrighted works. Hastily Iturbi withdrew his remarks about "trash," revised them to refer to "very light songs that anybody can hear any time over the air." Fearful of offending Gershwin partisans, Iturbi insisted that he had gone to see Girl Crazy no less than 14 times...