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...last month Mrs. Charles S. Guggenheimer, energetic chairman of Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony, seeking an added attraction for the Lewisohn Stadium concerts, telephoned for advice to Hall Johnson, Negro composer and choir master. Cautiously he mentioned the Bahama Negro dancers who appeared in his folk play Rim, Little Chillum! (TIME, March 13). Enthusiastic, Mrs. Guggenheimer suggested that they present a joint program with Tamiris, a wiry New York white girl with a growing reputation for dances based on Negroid themes. As a result, for two nights last week Conductor Hans Lange led the Philharmonic-Symphony through the dusky music...
...Spanish. Least successful was her own composition, the "Gris-Gris Ceremonial," based on African rites of propagation. Happily it was the only one in which she joined with the Bahamans. Alone, Dancer Tamiris displayed a studied, metallic style which emphasized posture rather than motion, successfully overcame the handicap huge Lewisohn Stadium places on a solo dancer. A friendly audience loudly clamored for encores. Critics who joined in the applause for Tamiris found the lusty cavorting of the Bahama dancers merely the obvious counterpart of "hot" music, considered its presence with the Philharmonic-Symphony incongruous...
...Manhattan the Philharmonic Symphony invited Iturbi to guest-conduct it in a concert in Lewisohn Stadium. Eagerly he agreed, for there is one musician in the world whom he idolizes: Arturo Toscanini. An audience that filled all but the extreme end seats turned out to see what this black-haired, electric little maestro of the piano bench could do with a baton in his hand...
...orchestras, to sit on chairs under great conductors as Leon Barzin's father did, as he was not content to do. This summer came the next step upward in Leon Barzin's career. Willem van Hoogstraten, official conductor of the Philharmonic-Symphony in its summer concerts at Lewisohn Stadium, was away on a fortnight's vacation. As guest conductor, Leon Barzin, 32, was called to give five concerts, leading the great orchestra in which he had been top man. One night last week he had his premiere and, though rain kept the crowds away, next...
...leading. They could have played the familiar music with their eyes shut. And the 12,000 listeners, few of whom think of paying winter concert prices, were completely satisfied. Stadium concerts had started in the traditional way-even to the lengthy, almost inaudible speech of stooped, old Adolph Lewisohn who built the Stadium, makes up the deficits, officiates each year at the opening before he leaves for his Saranac camp where he intones German and Jewish folksongs to his guests for hours on end. Sultry summer evenings bring excellent open-air music to a dozen U. S. cities, whereby musicians...