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...after day, Tomaselli's and the Café Bazar were as international as the Place de 1'Opéra in Paris. Packjammed night after night were performances of Reinhardt's Jedermann and Faust, operas and concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic under Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Erich Kleiber, Felix Weingartner. Last week with the festival in its final days, neither love nor money could obtain tickets for any Toscanini event or for the final Walter performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni...
Last week it became known that Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera had decided to produce The Emperor Jones next season, that Conductor Erich Kleiber had decided to give it at the Staatsoper in Berlin. In both places it will be staged with the chorus of pursuing savages grouped out of the audience's sight at first, some underneath, some in front of the stage. As they draw nearer to Jones, first their hands will emerge, then their arms, then slowly their bodies. Jones's encounters in the forest will be shown on small, raised stages to indicate that...
...Manhattan, Guila Bustabo, a 14-year-old Chicagoan who looks like Artist Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland, played the violin brightly for an audience which included Violinist Fritz Kreisler and three Philharmonic conductors-Erich Kleiber, Ernest Schelling, Arturo Toscanini...
...Philharmonic concert in Manhattan last week German Bruno Jaenicke, reputed the world's greatest French horn player, huffed, puffed & snuffed valiantly through the first two movements of the Concerto which Richard Strauss wrote for his horn-playing father. Then, exhausted, Horn-Player Jaenicke left the stage. Conductor Erich Kleiber strode after him, but no amount of persuasion would return Bruno Jaenicke to his snuffling misery. An unprecedented announcement was made: the Philharmonic was unable to finish a number it had started...
Dvorak's Symphony No. 5 in E Minor by Conductor Erich Kleiber and the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra (Brunswick, $7.50)?The New York Philharmonic's new man plays the New World Symphony inspired by the Czech composer's three-year stay...