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...week Peggy Wood, Marlene Dietrich, Josef von Sternberg, Jeanette MacDonald, Corinne Griffith and some 18,000 others heard Otto Klemperer play Beethoven, Wagner, Debussy, Al-beniz, Berlioz in the Bowl's opener. Conductors to follow during the eight-week season : Willem Mengelberg, Ernest Schelling, Bernardino Molinari, José Iturbi...
...famed musician. From her experience as patron-director of the concerts, Mrs. Armsby has written a book. Musicians Talk in which she frequently refers to visitors at her home-Gabrilowitsch, Hertz, Tibbett, Molinari, Walter, Coates- as "the celebrities." This summer's Hillsborough celebrities: Richard Lert, Basil Cameron, Jose Iturbi...
...Manhattan, sturdy little Jose Iturbi. by now accepted as a first-class conductor as well as a brilliant pianist, mounted a podium in the floodlighted Lewisohn Stadium, led the Philharmonic-Symphony expertly through the Star-Spangled Banner, Wagner's rousing overture to Die Meistersinger, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, three dances from De Falla's Three-Cornered Hat and, with Violinist Albert Spalding, the Mendelssohn Concerto. As usual, aged Adolph Lewisohn, donor of the Stadium and a patron of the concerts, made a little speech. So did peppery, music-loving Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. Hooted and booed by radicals...
When, on opening night, 7,000 people filled the seats in Robin Hood Dell, gloomy Philadelphians were honestly surprised, cheered themselves hoarse at the end. Conductor was Jose Iturbi who hurried down from Manhattan, played a Beethoven-Wagner program which the musicians had chosen...
...fine arts minister in the President's Cabinet to a discussion of ancient Hebrew music. Singing went on constantly, thanks to amateur choristers. For special treats there were concerts by Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, Baritone Nelson Eddy, Violinist Albert Spalding, the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by José Iturbi...