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...noted Finnish composer whose Origin of Fire, played in the U. S. for the first time early in 1938 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is (1 Werner Janssen, 2 Robert Kajanus, 3 Richard Strauss, 4 Jean Sibelius, 5 Eugene Ormandy...
...entirely confident of his position as a great musician, he is very appreciative of appreciation, collects, reads and rereads every small item that is written about him in the most provincial newspapers. On the subject of his interpreters he is diplomatic, has indiscriminately praised Conductors Koussevitzky, Beecham, Werner Janssen and his countryman Robert Kajanus. He has a comforting motto: "Better have it played badly or wrong than...
...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...
...hear the Bowl concert. Most conspicuously attentive of the Bowl audience was Actress Ann Harding who from her seat up front never took her eyes off the lank, gloomy-looking young man who conducted all five scores from memory. When, at the end of Scenes Historiques, the audience called Janssen back nine times, she looked as pleased as he. Since the two were married in a London registrar's office (TIME, Jan. 25) they have been inseparable. Miss Harding broke her hit engagement in Candida to go honeymooning around Scandinavia. They stopped off in Helsingfors and Janssen played...
...York critics have never been so appreciative of Werner Janssen's gifts. Though he is an earnest student, a meticulous conductor with a clean, unmannered beat, they find him immature, often maladroit in sustaining long passages, often given to inexplicable changes of pace. But Hollywood had little doubt of Janssen's worth. At the end of the concert they stood and applauded for seven minutes. Conductor Otto Klemperer said he was "overwhelmed." Forty-two hostesses invited him to their parties as guest of honor...