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...European super-conductors, and his recent death means the end of a musical era, as well as a great loss to Columbia. He, and his contemporaries, Seidl, Mahler, Mottl, etc., grew up in Germany when Germany was cock of the musical roost and knew it. They worked under Liszt in Weimar, they learnt their Wagner opera in Bayrenth under the eye of the "Master," and in the flush post-war days they made Salzburg a summer Mecca for European big-wigs, where Mozart and Beethoven had to fight Schiaparell for the center of the stage. Of all this illustrious company...
Like Mozart, Claudio Arrau began as a child prodigy; like Sibelius, he has been financed by his country. When he was seven, the foresighted Chilean Government shipped him off to Berlin to study under the great Liszt disciple, Martin Krause, paid all his bills for ten years. Arrau still stands high with Chilean officialdom. He is a member of its diplomatic service, received leaves of absence for his concert tours, travels on a passport which gets him almost anywhere...
...entertainment. To hire Larry Adler for The Bat was just one more bright idea of the Philadelphia Opera Company, a young, English-singing troupe which has been tossing off bright operatic ideas for three seasons. Besides the solo Blue Danube, Larry Adler had two en cores up his sleeve-Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody. Ravel...
...Iturbi has been in the U.S. since 1929, has worked hard to get into big-league conducting (Ford Sunday Evening Hour, Eastman Rochester Symphony). One of his stunts has been to conduct from the keyboard, while playing a Liszt or Beethoven concerto. He enjoys periodic crescendos of rage (against jazz, hot dogs, flash bulbs, etc.), makes a point of being nearly late at concerts. He plays a Baldwin piano, and wherever he goes he is attended by a sort of caddy, supplied by the Baldwin people to look after the piano, piano stool, pianist. Plaintively the caddy says...
...week tour. For pianistic form and box-office appeal, Rubinstein rates with the best of them-polished Josef Hofmann (56 years at the keyboard); titanic Sergei Rachmaninoff; glittering Vladimir Horowitz; sober Artur Schnabel; suave Walter Gieseking (now in Switzerland); rippling-fingered Moriz Rosenthal, 79-year-old pupil of Liszt...