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Born. To Erich Leinsdorf, 33, Viennese-born conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra; and Anne Frohnknecht Leinsdorf, 28: their third child, third son; in New Rochelle, N.Y. Name: Joshua Franklin. Weight...
Wagner: Tristan & Isolde, Excerpts from Act III (Lauritz Melchior and Herbert Janssen with the orchestra of the Colon Opera, Buenos Aires, and the Columbia Opera Orchestra, Roberto Kinsky and Erich Leinsdorf, conductors; Columbia; 10 sides). A superb slice of Tristan's last act, including almost everything except the famed Liebestod (which is separately available). Melchior, greatest of living Tristans, sings his mad scene as though he meant it. Recording: excellent...
...independence was celebrated musically last week by two U.S. symphony orchestras. The musical Czech of the hour was the occupied nation's foremost living composer, Bohuslav Martinu, now of Manhattan. In Cleveland (which has one of the largest Czech populations to be found in any U.S. city), Erich Leinsdorf conducted the premiere of Martinu's Second Symphony. In Manhattan, Artur Rodzinski conducted the premiere of a Martinu symphonic poem called Memorial to Lidice. In Philadelphia, Eugene Ormandy was rehearsing a third new Martinu composition, a Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, with the help of duo-Pianists Pierre...
...most promising of the remaining U.S. orchestras as the season opened were: the Chicago (Belgian-born Désiré De-fauw succeeded the late Frederick Stock) ; Cleveland (Austrian-born Erich Leinsdorf, formerly of the Metropolitan Opera House, succeeded the Philharmonic's Rodzinski); Minneapolis (Dimitri Mitropoulos) ; San Francisco (Pierre Monteux) ; Cincinnati (Eugene Goossens); St. Louis (Vladimir Golschmann); Detroit (U.S.-born Karl Krueger had managed to pull things together again after the orchestra became the temporary charge of Sam's Cut-Rate, Inc.-TIME, Oct. 19); Los Angeles (U.S.-born Alfred Wallenstein succeeded a string of guests); National Symphony...
...number of people attending Wagnerian operas has not, as some people may have supposed, fallen off since the war began, according to Leinsdorf. There has been in this war, as there was in the last war, a lively controversy as to whether or not the music of composers from enemy countries should be played...