Word: iturbi
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...Iturbi, swart, muscular pianist-conductor, began the 1936 U. S. summer music season with more engagements than any other hot-weather maestro (TIME, July 6). By last week, when the season was closing, Iturbi had made more news than any of his colleagues, less by able conducting than by magnificent exhibitions of Spanish spunk...
...Manhattan, where in July he played at the Lewisohn Stadium, José Iturbi brooded over the Spanish revolution, cried to newshawks, "Spain needs a strong man!" For that he was booed and picketed by the city's tireless and ubiquitous leftwingers...
...Philadelphia last fortnight, at a Robin Hood Dell Concert, José Iturbi led the Philadelphia Orchestra and Violinist Albert Spalding through the first movement of a Beethoven concerto. When, in a brief interval that followed, news cameramen began popping flashbulbs and snapping pictures, Iturbi and Spalding flounced off the stage. From an anteroom where they fumed & raged for ten minutes, a chair came whizzing into the audience's view. Explained Iturbi later: "I was annoyed and I blew...
...Cleveland one night last week, a non-paying audience at the Great Lakes Exposition beheld José Iturbi mount the podium for the first of six scheduled concerts with the Great Lakes Symphony. When the last number of the program was about to begin the audience became aware that something was wrong on the stage, and for nine minutes radio listeners on the Mutual Broadcasting chain heard nothing but ad-libbing by an anxious announcer. Conductor Iturbi, it became apparent, balked at starting Impressions of Buenos Aires by José André. To Cleveland's Conductor Rudolph Ringwall...
...That busy Spaniard, suffering no permanent hurt from the airplane accident he was in last spring in Trinidad (TIME, April 20), had arrived during the fortnight from a South American tour, had flown to Detroit, then back to Manhattan to open the summer season at the Lewisohn Stadium. Iturbi said he was booked for 47 U. S. concerts during the summer. In the Lewisohn Stadium, where three years ago he managed for the first time to make the U. S. think of him as a conductor, Iturbi appeared in a white flannel suit, dark blue shirt and white tie, played...