Word: janssen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stars." The current season began last fortnight, but one night last week the dither of arriving celebrities, the pop of exploding flashlights made it seem like an opening. Though Hollywood stars regularly attend the Bowl concerts, only a special occasion could have brought so many notables. Conductor Werner Janssen, son of the Manhattan restaurateur ("Janssen Wants to See You"), was playing a program by Finnish Jan Sibelius, the composer he understands best. He was playing for the first time at the Hollywood Bowl, the first time in the U. S. this year...
...young Webster left the Conservatory to go on tour. Since then he has studied under Schnabel in Berlin, played triumphantly through France, England, Holland. Germany, Italy, Russia. Manhattanites first heard him two years ago when he made his debut with the Philharmonic under Werner Janssen. He has played also with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Richmond symphonies. Last month he played in the White House after the Cabinet dinner...
Married. Cinemactress Ann Harding Bannister, 34; and Werner Janssen, 37, Manhattan composer and symphony conductor, son of Restaurateur August Janssen ("Wants To See You") ; in London...
...Ernest Ansermet. That spry, bearded Swiss gave modern Russian music many a first performance when he played for the old Diaghilev Ballet, has since guest-conducted in Europe and South America. Other Ravinia conductors who passed muster with Mrs. Eckstein were to be Willem van Hoogstraten. Hans Lange, Werner Janssen and three local men- Henry Weber, Rudolph Ganz, Isaac Van Grove. Whatever ghosts of old operatic voices lingered in the Ravinia rafters, Conductor Ansermet drowned them out with Wagner, Stravinsky, Liszt, Berlioz before taking a plane to California to open the agreeable summer concerts of the Hollywood Bowl...
Most Manhattan critics felt that he was too immature for so important a job, expressed no regrets when the Philharmonic failed to re-engage him. But back in Finland last week Werner Janssen had a hero's welcome. Again the Finns cheered everything he played. Again Sibelius championed him, said: "I cannot say how much I admire his inspiring and ardent interpretation of my intentions...